Posted on 05/17/2009 5:16:22 AM PDT by tlb
Seymour Hersh says that Dick Cheney headed a secret assassination wing and the head of the wing has just been named as the new commander in Afghanistan.
Hersh said that there is a special unit called the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) that does high-value targeting of men that are known to be involved in anti-American activities, or are believed to be planning such activities.
According to Hersh, the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) was headed by former US vice president Dick Cheney and the former head of JSOC, Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal who has just been named the new commander in charge of the war in Afghanistan.
Most of what General McChrystal has done over a 33-year career remains classified, including service between 2003 and 2008 as commander of the Joint Special Operations Command, an elite unit so clandestine that the Pentagon for years refused to acknowledge its existence.
On July 22, 2006, Human Rights Watch issued a report titled "No blood, no foul" about American torture practices at three facilities in Iraq. One of them was Camp Nama, which was operated by the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), under the direction of then Major General Stanley McChrystal.
McChrystal was officially based at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, but he was a frequent visitor to Camp Nama and other Special Forces bases in Iraq and Afghanistan where forces under his command were based.
The decision by Obama's administration to appoint General McChrystal as the new commander in charge of the war in Afghanistan and retaining the military commission for the US war-on-terror detainees held in the Guantanamo Bay prison are the latest examples of the new US administration walking in Bush's foot steps with regards to torture and denial of habeas corpus.
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Riverat didn’t say that but he like me laments that a disproportionate number of Obama water carriers in the media are very liberal Jews....some from generations of it.
It gets old....America is best thing to happen to Jews since Joshua entered Canaan.
So why are so many wishing to destroy it?
Hersh’s folks almost get butchered by Nazis and now here he is in the land of freedom trying to kill our culture and way of life.
Jewish conservatives are as pissed about it as this goy is I’ll wager...would that there were more of them.
If white southern Protestants like me acted this way I’d be ashamed of my own kind and angry at them too....but they don’t thankfully.
underneath it all I think folks like Hersh are just bigoted towards Christian culture of what they percieve as that...I’ve heard that myself from Jews I know.
If a Christian acts that way towards Jews then they are rightly scorned, hence the shoe can damn well fit on the other foot too..
This forum is probably the strongest pro-Israel anti-antiSemitism forum on the internet.
thanks
Ah NO you are NOT excused. The poster said far more than place of origin and or ethnicity. Somehow what old Seymour has made his life's work undermining US seems to have escaped your reading skills. Quite frankly, until I read your post it did not register in MY mind the words that you only saw fit to highlight. IF the ungodly communist shoes fit then they fit. Now why the .ell are we in Iraq and Afghanistan in the first place? Here I thought it was to stop the uncivilized barbarians from terrorizing the rest of the world. And then comes old Seymour doing what he does best accusing US and ignoring the purpose of stopping terrorists.
IF you are not with US you are against US, and our military volunteer to give their life's blood so Seymour can run around to and fro and write accusations against US. Seems to me given that it was US that provided old Seymour a 'place of safety' he might be a little bit thankful, but NO he is NOT.
And it is very Alinsky like to then accuse someone of their words meaning what you choose them to mean.
This is generally true and is something we can all be proud of. Recently, I have noticed a rise in objectionable anti-Jewish comments. The fact that someone descends from Lithuanian Jewish ancestors doesn't seem relevant to the current discussion.
The Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) is a component command of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and is charged to study special operations requirements and techniques to ensure interoperability and equipment standardization, plan and conduct special operations exercises and training, and develop Joint Special Operations Tactics. It was established on December 15, 1980, in the aftermath of the failure of Operation Eagle Claw, the unsuccessful attempt to rescue the 53 hostages from the American embassy in Tehran, Iran.[1] It is located at Pope Air Force Base and Fort Bragg in North Carolina, USA.
What's evil about coordinating the efforts of various special forces outfits? I think somebody wanted that job and is now trying to make the new guy's previous assignment seem somehow evil, and is using Sy's well-known paranoia and inability to separate out BS to their own benefit.
Shows what happens when you don't take your lithium.
Most of us here love Israel, admire Mark Levin, support Eric Cantor, and cheer David Zucker when he lets loose on the Islamofascists and the Commie liberals. But we do get a little frustrated when someone like Hersh trashes America, particularly considering all that America has done for Jews worldwide.
What wardaddy said.
I don’t know how many folks know this by Hersch penned “A Dark Side of Camelot” which revealed the truth (or I suppose Hersch’s version of the truth) under the rock that was “Camelot”.
I don’t know how much of the stuff in that books is 100% true, but it mostly made common sense, and is pretty much at odds the the liberal narrative that the kennedy’s were somehow gods.
Quite an entertaining read.
No, you dumb ass - I would have thought the sonuvabitch would have been more grateful to the country that gave them sanctuary and helped MIGHTILY to end the Nazi reign of terror.
But he - like far too many Leftist Jews in this country, don't recognize their exposure in a world devoid of America as a super power.. They must be self loathing Jews working toward their own extermination..
Perhaps YOU, idiot that you appear - believe the Jews would be better off in the hands of the Islamists?
The point is, if high value targets are dying—let alone being assassinated—don’t you think we’d know who they are? By definition high value means high profile. There would be media stories reporting these deaths.
I do not include anyone associated with the WOT in my comment above. They are being taken care of in the normal course of fighting the war.
The people Hersh is claiming to talk about are singularly political targets. They would be people like Putin and Chavez—or the Iranian, Syrian and Korean idiots. To my knowledge none of these bad boys have been taken out.
Hersh is a has been seeking relevancy. That he works for the NY Slime says all one needs to know about him and his respect for factual reporting.
What a freakin' moron. JSOC is not some hush hush small unknown special unit that he somehow has outed. It is one of the major commands of the U.S. combatant commands.
You just don't see them too clearly.
Seymour Hersh couldn’t hit his butt with either hand if they were handcuffed behind him. JSOC is no secret, it’s been around for years and he can fantasize all he wants about it, it only exposes his idiocy.
is the international body charged under international law with monitoring compliance with the Geneva Conventions,....So what’s the beef? We are not at war with legitimate Armies.
The OTHER disturbing aspect of the overwhelming preponderance of OUTSPOKEN Leftist Jews in America — is the relative silence from their fellow Jews in opposition.
It much like the “moderate Muslims” not speaking out against the radical Islamists...
It must be a Semitic characteristic to speak no evil about your own.....
It seems the criticism of the bastards must come from professional spokespeople on the radio or TV...... not their own community...
These people are an integral part of the media, constantly receiving awards in their “profession” and invited to all the gay events in their upscale society....
In MY society - bastards like this would be shunned and in danger of an ass kicking if they spouted their bullshit in our presence....
FR’s longtime trolls cannot resist these threads....especially a S. Hersh slander against Pres Bush and VP Cheney.
It's their political porn, and it's addicting.
Charg’n Charlie Beckworth (Col, USA) had it right.
Congress finally got their head out of their collective back pockets and put up the dough so the SpecOps folks could finally ‘do their thing’
(Col) Arron Banks, Wild Bill Donovan and a host of past smake eaters/spooks are smiling today as well. The enemys of the US, not so much.
IRANIAN propaganda “news” source.
Let's do a full scale statistical evaluation of Hollywood, the media both TV and print, the director committees of the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, People for the American Way, Anti-Gun groups, Separation of Church and State groups, liberal pundits and editors, and academia and then tell me that being Jewish is irrelevant.
I criticize any group of whom a majority seem hellbent to destroy what I cherish....be it liberal Jews, blacks, Mexican immigrants, lapsed Catholics or touchy feely good works Christians.
Sorry. When the vast majority of one of those groups is represented by their members being at the vanguard of the attack on my culture then they are fair game.
My tribe sure gets no pass for diddly so I'm not in the pass giving mood. That hardly infers any of us are anti-Semite, we are indeed staunch opponents of fascism and collectivism and give our money and lives to keep Israel alive in a sea of bogeymen but I'm not going to be a chump for liberal activist Jews who basically hate me for being what I am.
They are the bigots and they are active about it.
btw, we go overboard praising Jewish conservatives same as black ones cause I realize they have a tough home crowd to deal with unlike me as a 7th generation white protestant Missisippian where conservatism is in our DNA code.
Lithuanian Jews were mostly Orthodox. The assimilated liberal ones were mostly from Germany and western Europe. Poland was maybe half and half.
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