US involved in planning Israel operations -- The New Yorker (Seymour Hersh)

Agence France-Presse (excerpt) ^ | August 13, 2006

[BigSkyFreeper]

By all appearances, he's a damned liberal, and liberals don't care one whit about this country.

[onyx]

:)

[elfman2]

"Citing an unnamed Middle East expert with knowledge of the current thinking of the Israeli and US governments…"

[BigSkyFreeper]

Of course, the unamed "expert", who else? Prolly just some leftwing lunatic from DU

Or one of the voices in his head.

[finnsheep]

Hey, I've got a story for him. It looks like both Hezbollah and the Iraqi insurgents are bogged down in their fight against Israel and the Iraqi and US forces. It's a real quagmire for them. They don't seem to have any exit strategy. Their losses mount day by day. We haven't been allowed to see the funerals of the Hezbollah fighters, yadayadayada.

[Dinah Lord]

thanks for posting that pic - but is it just me or does it look like light beams are shooting out of his a$$ as he stands at that podium?

You can guess what I think comes out of his mouth...

[docbnj]

Even if I didn't already know the reputation of this man, anyone who wins the Pulititzer Prize is suspect. That prize is simply a mechanism for liberal-left journalists to pat each other on the back.

The New Yorker is similarly completely partisan. Recall that they ran an article a few years ago attempting to exonerate the Rosenbergs. They never ran a retraction when the Venona files and other evidence from Soviet records became avialble, showing conclusively that the Rosenbergs were guilty. All through the Vietnam War, The New Yorker ran stories attacking US soldiers for atrocities, most of which were reported from biassed sources, or were fabricated.

[OldFriend]

Hope it's true!

And Hersch can go fly a kite, he's a hatemongering troublemaker.

[DannyTN]

"There is no way that (Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld and Cheney will draw the right conclusion about this," "

"I'm pretty sure you don't have the war plan" - Rummy.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Absurd. What, exactly, do the Israelis need from the US regarding Lebanon ?

[Democratshavenobrains]

Hey Sy, how did that Iran invasion we did a year ago working out?

[MNJohnnie]

In 2006 he reported on the US military's plans for Iran, which called for the use of nuclear weapons against that country.

Well that is completely dishonest spin. He claimed Bush was planning a nuclear strike against Iran. He did not claim it was a military contingency plan. He said Bush WAS going to nuke Iran.

[Condor51]

No, that was Adam Clymer of the NY Slimes.

But Sy Hersh is also a "Major League A__hole - Big Time".

[Starrgaizr]

Hersh is pathetic. He wishes to sabotage US power. But I hope he is right. The president, however, must make the case for an invasion of Iran. Air attacks alone cannot be relied upon. It must be assumed that when Iran has nuclear weapons, it will use them. It is no different from letting Osama have nukes.

[larryjohnson]

USAF will advise as needed,thak you.

[Excellence]

This is an opinion piece dressed up as a news item.

[veronica]

Whether this is true or false, Seymour has gone over to the dark side...

Uh, yeah, like 30 years ago.

[jimbo123]

Hersh is a self-hating Jew and a terror apologist.

[Fedora]

Thanks! I wonder who this is:

Citing an unnamed Middle East expert with knowledge of the current thinking of the Israeli and US governments. . .