Posted on 11/01/2006 11:45:39 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
“The bad news,” investigative reporter Seymour Hersh told a Montreal audience last Wednesday, “is that there are 816 days left in the reign of King George II of America.”
The good news? “When we wake up tomorrow morning, there will be one less day.”
Hersh, a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine, has been a thorn in the side of the U.S. government for nearly 40 years. Since his 1969 exposé of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, which is widely believed to have helped turn American public opinion against the Vietnam War, he has broken news about the secret U.S. bombing of Cambodia, covert C.I.A. attempts to overthrow Chilean president Salvador Allende, and, more recently, the first details about American soldiers abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
During his hour-and-a-half lecture – part of the launch of an interdisciplinary media and communications studies program called Media@McGill – Hersh described video footage depicting U.S. atrocities in Iraq, which he had viewed, but not yet published a story about.
He described one video in which American soldiers massacre a group of people playing soccer.
“Three U.S. armed vehicles, eight soldiers in each, are driving through a village, passing candy out to kids,” he began. “Suddenly the first vehicle explodes, and there are soldiers screaming. Sixteen soldiers come out of the other vehicles, and they do what they´re told to do, which is look for running people.”
“Never mind that the bomb was detonated by remote control,” Hersh continued. “[The soldiers] open up fire; [the] cameras show it was a soccer game.”
“About ten minutes later, [the soldiers] begin dragging bodies together, and they drop weapons there. It was reported as 20 or 30 insurgents killed that day,” he said.
If Americans knew the full extent of U.S. criminal conduct, they would receive returning Iraqi veterans as they did Vietnam veterans, Hersh said.
“In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation,” he said. “It isn´t happening now, but I will tell you – there has never been an [American] army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq.”
Hersh came out hard against President Bush for his involvement in the Middle East.
“In Washington, you can´t expect any rationality. I don´t know if he´s in Iraq because God told him to, because his father didn´t do it, or because it´s the next step in his 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous program,” he said.
Hersh hinted that the responsibility for the invasion of Iraq lies with eight or nine members of the administration who have a “neo-conservative agenda” and dictate the U.S.´s post-September 11 foreign policy.
“You have a collapsed Congress, you have a collapsed press. The military is going to do what the President wants,” Hersh said. “How fragile is democracy in America, if a president can come in with an agenda controlled by a few cultists?”
Throughout his talk Hersh remained pessimistic, predicting that the U.S. will initiate an attack against Iran, and that the situation in Iraq will deteriorate further.
“There´s no reason to see a change in policy about Iraq. [Bush] thinks that, in twenty years, he´s going to be recognized for the leader he was – the analogy he uses is Churchill,” Hersh said. “If you read the public statements of the leadership, they´re so confident and so calm…. It´s pretty scary.”
Seymour Hersh is a traitor. He is continuing to give aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States and yet he continues to live a free and prosperous life. That isn't right.
what is wrong with this man ?
Rebribution never seems to find people like this.
Seymour Hersh is a refugee from the sixties. His narrow political thought stretches between Central Park to the Hudson River and Berkeley to the San Francisco Bay.
The MSM is the marketing arm of the DNC; a group of ad copy writers and spokespersons posing as credentialed journalists. This is why the left gives out "prestigious" awards to unqualified recipients. The awards have no real meaning other than to acknowledge the recipient's loyalty to the group in terms of effective false ad copy. The awards are, in effect, medals of dishonesty which ordinary American's unknowingly assign credibility to. -Eddie01 Aug. 2006
His words are outrageous. Fits with the traitor Skerry. The Dims better start 'splainin' themselves away. God Bless our our country, our President and our military.
<< what is wrong with this (creature) ? >>
Hersh is not a man.
He is a manifestation of evil, a traitor and a subversive and suffers the mental derangement known euphemistically in America as, "liberalism."
Hanging would be too good for the mongrel bastard.
The Drudge headline is not the title of the article. The actual title is what should be posted.
SEYMOUR HERSH is nothing more than the enemy of all who value moral individual freedom and prosperity.
Hanging would be too good for the mongrel bastard and his fellow travelers....the Pulitzer is worthless!
McGill. Someone help me. I cannot remember what state it's in.
It is in Montreal, Canada.
You don't say. :)
Here is the thing:
Liberalism goes hand-in-hand with stunted emotional growth. They are generally losers who, if in the right age group, look fondly on the activism of the Sixties as the zenith of political expression. If they are not of the right age group, they wish they could have been there.
The entire Democratic party is symptomatic of this. They long for the days of Vietnam and Watergate. What they fail to see is the incalculable damage that Watergate did to our country and our government (particularly the Executive branch, and implementation of the idiotic independent counsel legislation.)
Watergate was bad, but what the Liberals did with it as a political weapon was even worse.
Their cynical, negative view of all things government, and by extension, American, pervades Liberal's point of view. Now, being wary of government is not a bad thing, but if you destroy something and offer no alternative, then you are just as much of a problem, if not more so.
And this describes the Liberals of today, and their anti-American and anti-Administration stances. Arguably, conservatives belong to the party with ideas, and all the liberals can do is attack those ideas without offering any alternative.
Such is Seymour Hersh.
Hersh talks a lot of trash about how bad the Army or Bush or the Administration is. If it was true he and his ilk would have been disappeared by now.
Hopefully there will come a day when people will be ashamed to admit that one of their ancestors received this award.
Great lying, Dan Rather. Fatastic fantasy during Kartina, people. Keep up the good work.
Hersh has be suffering declining mental health for half a donzen years, at least.
He probably lost that part of the brain that recognizes reality, and is forced to pull beliefs from long term memory.
That, and probably a good dose of BDS.
More coffee...
Syphilis?
That explains it
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