OMG> This guy scares me to death!
Oh c'mon. This guy is so ridiculously over the top that he's taken seriously by maybe a half dozen fellow schizophrenics. Any day now, he's going to announce that that the President and the janitor in his apartment building are actually aliens conspiring to give all Americans hang-nails and make his water pipes bang in the middle of the night.
“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.
Those of us who have been in the military and those of us who have seen movies about the American military, know that from time to time when the environment is quiet for a while, members might lay down their weapons and engage in an impromptu game of football or some other type of entertainment. Would enemy combatants have refrained from firing if they had come upon such a situation?
Another thing bothers me about Hersh's recounting; if I imagine myself playing football within line of shooting sight of an explosion that destroys a military vehicle, would I ignore the event and proceed with my football game?
...and then, where was this camera person who is recording these scenes from angles that show the explosion, and the troops deploying, and the soccer game joyfully and innocently proceeding?
Were there credits on this video? Who did the video, the editing and the special effects?
The article fails to mention that Hersh also wrote that Clinton bombed an aspirin factory in the Sudan in the list of reports they attribute to him.