Posted on 11/01/2006 2:48:26 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Speaking to launch McGills 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 theyre 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 isnt 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 cant expect any rationality. I dont know if hes in Iraq because God told him to, because his father didnt do it, or because its 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.
Theres no reason to see a change in policy about Iraq. [Bush] thinks that, in twenty years, hes 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, theyre so confident and so calm
. Its pretty scary.
We do the same sort of thing to the Turks every now and then ~ and who can forget from "Lawrence of Arabia" that the Turkish officer corps is made up of homosexuals, or in "Midnight Express" that Turkish prisons are brutal beyond imagination.
A couple of weeks ago over 80 Suni'ies were found dead after being severely tortured (most likely by Shiite police).
Hersch is not being fired upon or suffering IEDs. He is compfortable is his mansion.
Hersch should be tried for TREASON!
More probably of Yuri Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, '67 to '82 and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from later in '82 to early '84, when he died in office.
Go ahead, Seymour. Show us how.
The rest of us will watch. Some may eat popcorn.
Didn't Nazi troops massacre millions of Jews, Poles and Russian civilians?
Didn't Stalin's troops rape nearly every German female they could find in 1945?
Didn't Pol Pot's army kill a couple of million civilians?
If U.S. troops are the worst they must be doing a super job of covering up their atrocities because it's all happening right under the noses of the MSM who would trumpet the slightest indignity inflicted on any terrorist anywhere.
Like Woodward he is a one hit wonder whose credentials are stamped paid in full by the entire MSM. He is full of himself and full of $hIt!!
(((( my condolences for your family's loss, and my gratitude for your cousin's service to our country ))))
Ya, kind of reminds me of Pat Buchanan.
I question the 42 years no muslim extremist attacks though. The 1930's were rife with terrorism in the muslim world/French colonies. Guess I have 40 years of history to read through to back that up.
Sy Hersh on the otherhand is a useless idiot.
Spread the word. We'll be done there sooner
I guess this BEM (Booger Eating Moron) has never heard of the US Army Air Force. I wonder if he ever heard of the cities of Tokyo or Dresden?
Or maybe he believes that the #1 job of the military should be rounding up bunny rabits and painting walls.
Mr Hirsch, you are the epitome of the term "Useful Idiot." You're giving encouragement, aid, and comfort to an enemy that would put you up against a wall the first chance they got, and slowly saw your head off. All the while laughing and thanking you for the help you gave them.
Mark
More motivation to get out the vote...Kerry's apology doesn't make this attitude go away.....
Don't cry. *Spit*. And then go vote.
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Who the hell is this moron?
I hope he is right!
Amazing how no one ever had the good sense to pop six into him.
In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation, he said.
He's proud of that too, even though those who came back and
never committed a criminal act were tarred with the same slanderous brush.
It's only too bad we didn't hang a few reporters during that war.
Try the same place the first one was once found. The Pershing Military and Naval Science building, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Home of AFROTC det. 465, NROTC Battalion "Blackshirts of National Defense", and of course The Army ROTC "Big Red Battalion" and IIRC, national HQ of the Pershing Rifles, founded by Black Jack himself.
(Lincoln also has their civic Auditorium and an elementary school (which many of my friends attended, my wife also attended very briefly) named after Pershing.
UNL can also supply the pigs, from the Ag department. How many you think we'll need?
Considering that Ollie North is a Marine, that might not be a "Good Idea". Not that the Red Hordes might not do it anyway, being "Stuck on Stupid".
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