Seymour Hersh
By on Nov 28th, 2005 at 7:20 am
Seymour Hersh
reports on the administrations plan to replace ground troops in Iraq with increased air power. According to military experts, the danger is “the over-all level of violence and the number of Iraqi fatalities would increase unless there are stringent controls over who bombs what.”
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It really is turning into an Israeli-style conflict.
November 28th, 2005 at 7:59 amI’ve had my morning vision:
Goes something like this:
F-I-L-I-B-U-S-T-E-R
Off subject, I know. These Repubes are disbanded. They’re sweating bullets praying they don’t get subpeonas…
Who says a minority can’t have power? Only Bush could empower a minority to this degree! Hee!
November 28th, 2005 at 8:34 amNo big deal. This is “smart” weaponry we’ll be using. What could possibly go wrong? So long as the Iraquis postpone any wedding celebrations until…oh, I don’t know….until the end of time? Lucky for them, the clock’s been ticking since November 2000.
Let’s see if there is any mention of the air war in the Big Speech Event on Wednesday.
November 28th, 2005 at 8:35 amIt is and will be the germination of state-mandated assassination. Then there will be 2 “democracies” who do it.
November 28th, 2005 at 8:44 amNot that I have a problem with that. Mnay people will, however…
SPAMFUSH aka John Deaux, aka Dennis Bauer,
“We demand congress enact legislation protecting private pensions from corporations deliberately declaring bankruptcy or ending pensions outright.”
The federal government already protects pensions. What do you think happened with United Airlines? (See http://www.pbgc.gov/ I’m sure you won’t since you post the same nonsense everywhere.)Go away with your SPAM. No one’s buying your t-shirts.
November 28th, 2005 at 9:07 amSeriously, I’m as progressive as anyone else who visits this site regularly, but hasn’t Sy ruined some of his credability yet? Were we not going to war in Syria in June? And remember, Sy was SURE of this. This guy has turned away from journalism and picked up the torch of activist. That’s great, and we certainly welcome him, but his ‘fact’ is sometimes to me seems a little ‘Jason Blair-ish.’ Maybe he’s just being used by his deep background sources, though.
November 28th, 2005 at 9:18 amI love Seymour Hersh and the good work he has done for this country over the past four decades. He deserves those pulitzers, people!
Wasn’t it some right-wing media hack who called him the “closest thing journalism has to a terrorist” a few years ago?
Could someone who remembers this reply here with the details?
November 28th, 2005 at 9:18 amIf we bomb everything, ther’ll be nobody left to complain. Makes sense – GOP style
November 28th, 2005 at 9:25 amBetween this New Yorker article and the comments made by Hersh on CNN yesterday about Bush’s detachment and isolation, his resistance to heed anyone who offers a contrary view to his “divine” mission, his personal “manifest destiny,” we should be very watchful and ready to support any effort to remove Bush from office.
November 28th, 2005 at 9:28 amBelieving he will be judged favorably twenty years from now, he is impervious to criticism of his crusade. Hersh’s words were alarming in that he spoke of the alarm being felt by those who attempt to talk to him.
#9, It was Richard Perle, when Hersh made some unfavorable comments against him about making questionable business deals (before Perle resigned from the administration).
Perle became embroiled in another controversy after a March 9 appearance on CNN’s “Late Edition” during which he characterized journalist Seymour M. Hersh as “the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist.”
An article by Hersh had just appeared in The New Yorker citing the Global Crossing controversy and reporting on a January lunch in Marseilles, France, that Perle had with Saudi industrialist Harb Saleh Zuhair and Saudi-born businessman Adnan Khashoggi.
According to Hersh, Zuhair was interested in making an investment in Trireme Partners, a venture capital firm of which Perle is a managing partner.
Nothing resulted from the lunch, Hersh reported, but the writer implied Perle, a well-known longtime critic of the Saudi regime, had improperly mixed politics and business.
Perle dismissed Hersh’s reporting as “irresponsible” and “complete nonsense.”
November 28th, 2005 at 9:38 am“…unless there are stringent controls over who bombs what.”
Sounds a lot like Vietnam.
November 28th, 2005 at 9:41 amobviously bush slept through most of his history class, but half-listened to the part about post-ww1 britain using air power in irak to bomb the flippin’ ‘eck outta the wogs. then they set up a puppet state and ran. t.e. lawrence wrote in the 20s:
“The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiqués are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public knows. It is a disgrace to our imperial record and may soon be too inflamed for any ordinary cure. We are today not far from a disaster. Our unfortunate troops, Indian and British, under hard conditions of climate and supply are policing an immense area, paying dearly every day in lives for the willfully wrong policy of the civil administration in Baghdad but the responsibility, in this case, is not on the army which has acted only upon the request of the civil authorities.â€
November 28th, 2005 at 10:44 am# 12
Thanks, Marie.
I knew I could count on the Thinkprogress regulars to furnish real and specific citations.
Maybe Ann Coulter should mosey on by and learn how to actually cite information rather than simply spew invective!
November 28th, 2005 at 11:30 amPlunger, that is quite a theory. Frankly, if so much deception had not already been proven as existing in this White House, and with the neocons with their long-term for their place in the world, I would be inclined to dismiss your theory as extreme. But knowing what we know now, there is nothing I would put past them. I will be watching to see if this begins to unfold.
November 28th, 2005 at 7:08 pmVery nice. I hope you’ll update very soon. Forecast Fetch Anticipate – that is all that Opponents is capable of: http://www.cnn.com/ , when Girl is Circle it will Steal Round when Table is TV it will Love Cards , Stake can Compute Pair Industrious Table becomes Greedy Gnome in final
December 7th, 2005 at 2:22 am