Seymour Hersh

[ApeStyle]

“There has never been an American army as violent and murderous as the one in Iraq”

[PghBaldy]

I wonder how long till the Dems pick up on his statement? Will they restrain themselves until after the election? I hope Fox reporters (casue no other network would) ask them what they think about this.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

That's good news. I want a mean lean killing machine defending my country from blood thirsty mindless killers.

[PghBaldy]

http://hotair.com/archives/2006/11/01/sy-hersh-us-army-in-iraq-is-the-most-violent-and-murderous-in-american-history/

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.”
He goes on to speculate that invading Iraq was one of the 12 steps in Bush’s AA program.
... On the podium, Sy is willing to tell a story that’s not quite right, in order to convey a Larger Truth. “Sometimes I change events, dates, and places in a certain way to protect people,” Hersh told me. “I can’t fudge what I write. But I can certainly fudge what I say.”

[PghBaldy]

I hope talk radio and Fox play this up. The Dems will have a hard time not letting loose. 5 days left.

[BLS]

As a Christian it is wrong to wish a violent and painful death on another.

As a Christian it is wrong to wish a violent and painful death on another.

(I figure if it takes me all night to calm down, repeating this the whole way, maybe God will understand and forgive my first thoughts about the esteemed Mr. Hirsh tonight)

[PghBaldy]

He also is the one who said boys were raped by Americans. He is evil, and in a different time would have been locked up for what he's doing.

[truth_seeker]

“There has never been an American army as violent and murderous as the one in Iraq”

Not necessarily a bad thing. Aren't armies supposed to be violent? Aren't they supposed to take life if necessary?

[atomic conspiracy]

Remember, folks, this treason profiteer and volunteer Kremlin spy was the chief instigator of the "Vietnam vet as baby-killing-savage" meme.
He didn't just expose the My Lai massacre (with a lot of help from loyal soldiers), he worked very hard to generalize the incident and its perpetrators to the whole country and to every American who served there.

The whole rotten subculture he helped create is teetering on the brink of collapse. I rejoice that he will live to see his life's work destroyed and his goals discredited before he finally goes on to hell where he belongs.

[Darkwolf377]

I'm not a Christian, so I'll wish it for you. ;)

[Brad from Tennessee]

Sy Hersh got famous when he bought pictures taken during the Mi Lai killings in Vietnam and sold them to Time-Life who printed them leading to the trial Lt. Calley and others. Since then he has been a showboat. Almost any article or book he writes is sensationalistic. His sources are often cranks and his facts flawed or fabricated.

His statement about U.S. forces in Iraq is absurd. U.S. troops are under greater restraints, show the greatest degree of fire discipline, and fight what is the most politically correct war in history. Hersh should study the wars leading up to this one.

[CyberAnt]

Good - that's what we trained them to do - kill people and break things!!

Peace follows VICTORY!!

[BonnieJ]

The Dems and most of the media are going to avoid those sorts of comments about our troops for a while, after the mess Kerry created for them.

[CyberAnt]

Esteeming garbage is not required of a Christian.

[kaehurowing]

And I'm sure it's in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan. . . .

[BLS]

"I'm not a Christian, so I'll wish it for you. ;)"


Thank you so very much.

[kaehurowing]

Can someone explain to me why the people who bash Bush for invading Iraq are the same people who bash him for not invading Darfur?

[L.N. Smithee]

On the podium, Sy is willing to tell a story that’s not quite right, in order to convey a Larger Truth. “Sometimes I change events, dates, and places in a certain way to protect people,” Hersh told me. “I can’t fudge what I write. But I can certainly fudge what I say.”

Hey, Hersh! Fudge YOU!

[L.N. Smithee]

[Hersh] goes on to speculate that invading Iraq was one of the 12 steps in Bush’s AA program.

Remember, this is a guy who wrote the foreword to an book on Iraq written by Scott Ritter, who was arrested in June 2001 while trying to meet an underage girl for sex for the second time in three months.

[dancusa]

Seymour Hersh is a refugee from the sixties. His narrow political thought stretches from Central Park to the Hudson River and Berkeley to the San Francisco Bay.