Seymour Hersh simply needs to stop and emigrate

Over the years Mr. Hersh has gotten them correct (My Lai) and gotten them tragically wrong (Flight 007). But now he has demonstrated a political dialectic, and more probably an economic need to act in a manner not only detrimental to the american polity (who cares about that, so does Al Sharpton?) but also harmful to the will of the USA, expressed in the voting booth, and the safety of the people of the USA.

Mr. Hersh is claiming that the american army is a bunch of murderers who would be received in a fashion worse than the killer armies of My Lai faced upon return from Vietnam (i.e spat upon in airports). By the way the factless and silly Mcdill Daily credit Mr. Hersh with turning america against the war in Vietnam (funny I thought it was the way media shaped the huge military victory of Tet into a huge political loss).

In describing the situation we freely elected, by clear majority, Hersh says this:

“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 (CODE WORD ALERT) “neo-conservative agenda” and dictate the U.S.’s post-September 11 foreign policy.

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