The Truth is Out There Doug links to a Seymour Hersh interview by Amy Goodman, whose contents are so self-expressive they need no comment....
The Truth is Out There
Doug
links to a Seymour
Hersh interview by Amy Goodman, whose contents are so self-expressive they
need no comment. Here are some of the things Hersh says:
We took Baghdad easily. It wasn't because be won. We took Baghdad because
they pulled back and let us take it and decided to fight a war that had been
pre-planned that they're very actively fighting. The frightening thing about
it is, we have no intelligence. Maybe it's -- it's -- it is frightening, we
have no intelligence about what they're doing. A year-and-a-half ago, we're up
against two and three-man teams. We estimated the cells operating against us
were two and three people, that we could not penetrate. As of now, we still
don't know what's coming next. There are 10, 15-man groups. They have terrific
communications. Somebody told me, it's -- somebody in the system, an officer
-- and by the way, the good part of it is, more and more people are available
to somebody like me.
... the amazing thing is we are been taken over basically by a cult, eight
or nine neo-conservatives have somehow grabbed the government. Just how and
why and how they did it so efficiently, will have to wait for much later
historians and better documentation than we have now, but they managed to
overcome the bureaucracy and the Congress, and the press, with the greatest of
ease. It does say something about how fragile our Democracy is. You do have to
wonder what a Democracy is when it comes down to a few men in the Pentagon and
a few men in the White House having their way. What they have done is
neutralize the C.I.A. because there were people there inside
I have a friend in the Air Force, a Colonel, who had the awful task of
being an urban bombing planner, planning urban bombing, to make urban bombing
be as unobtrusive as possible. I think it was three weeks ago today, three
weeks ago Sunday after Fallujah I called him at home. I'm one of the people --
I don't call people at work. I call them at home, and he has one of those
caller I.D.’s, and he picked up the phone and he said, “Welcome to
Stalingrad.”
This amazing interview closes with a flourish.
AMY GOODMAN: Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh. This news
just in: 31 Marines have died in a helicopter crash in Iraq. To purchase an
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for guns, only it works for 2,000 lb bombs.
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