- "Let's all forget this word 'insurgency'. It's one
of the most misleading words of all. Insurgency assumes that we had gone
to Iraq and won the war and a group of disgruntled people began to operate
against us and we then had to do counter-action against them. That would
be an insurgency. We are fighting the people we started the war against.
We are fighting the Ba'athists plus nationalists. We are fighting the very
people that started - they only choose to fight in different time spans
than we want them to, in different places. We took Baghdad easily. It wasn't
because be won. We took Baghdad because they pulled back and let us take
it and decided to fight a war that had been pre-planned that they're very
actively fighting." and (my emphasis; note that the 'cult' Hersh refers
to is centered around Cheney-Rumsfeld, which makes the revelations, prompted
by Hersh's work in the first place, of Rumsfeld's new personal Pentagon
dirty-tricks intelligence agency established by crazed Zionist Stephen
A. Cambone and crazed Christian Zionist Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, and
the fact that the Pentagon is officially, despite the Posse Comitatus Act,
operating domestically, all the more frightening):
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- ". . . the amazing thing is we are been taken over
basically by a cult, eight or nine neo-conservatives have somehow grabbed
the government. Just how and why and how they did it so efficiently, will
have to wait for much later historians and better documentation than we
have now, but they managed to overcome the bureaucracy and the Congress,
and the press, with the greatest of ease. It does say something about how
fragile our Democracy is. You do have to wonder what a Democracy is when
it comes down to a few men in the Pentagon and a few men in the White House
having their way. What they have done is neutralize the C.I.A. because
there were people there inside - the real goal of what Goss has done was
not attack the operational people, but the intelligence people. There were
people - serious senior analysts who disagree with the White House, with
Cheney, basically, that's what I mean by White House, and Rumsfeld on a
lot of issues, as somebody said, the goal in the last month has been to
separate the apostates from the true believers. That's what's happening.
The real target has been 'diminish the agency.' I'm writing about all of
this soon, so I don't want to overdo it, but there's been a tremendous
sea change in the government. A concentration of power." and, much
like the almost secret bombing of Iraq by Britain and the United States
that took place in the years of the 'no-fly zones', an amazing revelation
hidden by the fact that the journalists in Iraq who are supposed to be
covering the war are cowering under their beds in their hotel rooms (my
emphasis):
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- "Since we installed our puppet government, this
man, Allawi, who was a member of the Mukabarat, the secret police of Saddam,
long before he became a critic, and is basically Saddam-lite. Before we
installed him, since we have installed him on June 28, July, August, September,
October, November, every month, one thing happened: the number of sorties,
bombing raids by one plane, and the number of tonnage dropped has grown
exponentially each month. We are systematically bombing that country. There
are no embedded journalists at Doha, the Air Force base I think we're operating
out of. No embedded journalists at the aircraft carrier, Harry Truman.
That's the aircraft carrier that I think is doing many of the operational
fights. There's no air defense, It's simply a turkey shoot. They come and
hit what they want. We know nothing. We don't ask. We're not told. We know
nothing about the extent of bombing. So if they're going to carry out an
election and if they're going to succeed, bombing is going to be key to
it, which means that what happened in Fallujah, essentially Iraq - some
of you remember Vietnam - Iraq is being turn into a 'free-fire zone' right
in front of us. Hit everything, kill everything. I have a friend in the
Air Force, a Colonel, who had the awful task of being an urban bombing
planner, planning urban bombing, to make urban bombing be as unobtrusive
as possible. I think it was three weeks ago today, three weeks ago Sunday
after Fallujah I called him at home. I'm one of the people - I don't call
people at work. I call them at home, and he has one of those caller I.D.'s,
and he picked up the phone and he said, 'Welcome to Stalingrad.' We know
what we're doing. This is deliberate. It's being done. They're not telling
us. They're not talking about it."
- and, after comparing My Lai to Abu Ghraib, and a discussion
of the effect of the brutality on the soldiers, and all the horribly wounded
Americans, and the fact that those in the military are going to start to
question what is going on in Iraq:
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- "Another salvation may be the economy. It's going
to go very bad, folks. You know, if you have not sold your stocks and bought
property in Italy, you better do it quick. And the third thing is Europe
- Europe is not going to tolerate us much longer. The rage there is enormous.
I'm talking about our old-fashioned allies. We could see something there,
collective action against us. Certainly, nobody - it's going to be an awful
lot of dancing on our graves as the dollar goes bad and everybody stops
buying our bonds, our credit - our - we're spending $2 billion a day to
float the debt, and one of these days, the Japanese and the Russians, everybody
is going to start buying oil in Euros instead of dollars. We're going to
see enormous panic here. But he could get through that. That will be another
year, and the damage he's going to do between then and now is enormous.
We're going to have some very bad months ahead."
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- Solid predictions. Do you want to believe the warmongers,
who say that everything is just swell, or Hersh, who puts it on the line
with some clear predictions? Who is your money on? There's more content
in this little interview than you would get if you read every word in the
disgusting American press for the last four years. You can tie the new
cult neatly into the real problem with Gonzales as attorney general, that
Gonzales gave Bush a legal opinion essentially saying that Bush was bound
by no law in doing what he wanted to do. As Tom Engelhardt writes:
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- ". . . the legal theory that first came to light
in the 'torture memos' that emerged from the White House Legal Counsel's
office - that, in his role as commander-in-chief in 'wartime,' the President
was essentially unfettered by Congress or the courts and could act as he
wished - turns out to reach way beyond the issue of torture. Yes, Rumsfeld's
Pentagon had trumped the CIA and was once again expanding its turf. It
was now to be the armed intelligence and diplomatic spearhead of an ever-more
militarized government; but at least as important was the urge that lurked
behind this development - to free the President of all accountability,
all democratic fetters, all those balancing powers so familiar to high-school
students in any civics class. What this represents is a strikingly expansive
imperial definition of 'freedom.'"
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- The speed with which the United States had fallen into
fascism, under the guidance of an American Imperialist/Zionist/Christian
Zionist cult, is remarkable.
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- http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/01/hersh-lays-it-on-line.html
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