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Speaking to launch McGill’s interdisciplinary media studies program last Wednesday, Hersh said he had seen video footage of atrocities in Iraq. Jennifer Bartoli / The McGill Daily |
Posted on 11/01/2006 2:48:26 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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Speaking to launch McGill’s interdisciplinary media studies program last Wednesday, Hersh said he had seen video footage of atrocities in Iraq. Jennifer Bartoli / The McGill Daily |
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.”
OMG> This guy scares me to death!
WTF is this Hersh?
And exactly why would I believe one word this sack of shit says?
Oh yea. ..well Sy can kiss my a**!
---- you, you old Communist loser.
what an ignoranus
Haven't you heard? He's a Pulitzer Prize winner. He's OBVIOUSLY trustworthy. 
Discussion thread on DU:
Sy Hersh- “There Has Never Been An American Army AS Murderous As The One In Iraq”
Tell the big lie often enough....
Spread the word. We'll be done there sooner
If you want to talk body count how about having to move bodies off the pile to clear the field of fire like in the Pacific ww2?
Hasn't he read any history?
Kerry is representative of the Leftists no matter how much he apologizes.....
This gets me so angry I could cry.
And one day closer to the rule of Jeb I. (I hope Hersh read that and felt a heart flutter.)
What an IDIOT!
It is good to know that our military now exceeds all others (in history!) in its ability to inflict violence. Rumsfeld deserves kudos.
As for the rest - this clown is something of a living fossil. Most of his comrades have passed on to lesser and worse things. His ramblings are on a par with listening to recordings on the old 78's grandma used to play on the wind-up Victrola. They are quaint but rather scratchy and filled with meaningless static.
Don't cry. Vote.
:-)
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