Comments on: Seymour Hersh: Confusing Fantasy with Reality

By: Administrator

Administrator — Sun, 27 May 2007 20:35:19 +0000

Jawad
Interesting to see that you see Hersh as a tool of the so-called “Zionists” “pushing US policy towards a war with Iran.”

What’s “pushing US Policy towards a war with Iran” is finding Iranian shrapnel in our dead and wounded soldiers, Iran’s aggressive sponsoring of Hamas and al-Qaeda (yes, I know that the latter is anti-Shi’a, but the Iranian regime isn’t as pro-Shi’a as it would have you believe. They take the old Arab saying “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” to heart) – plus Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons.

If you want to blame anyone for a possible war with Iran – one that I myself believe has next to zero odds of happening in the near future – blame Iran’s president Ahmadinejad. Had he kept his mouth shut about Israel and kept Iran’s imperialistic ambitions in check – at least until the bombs were ready – he could have gotten the nukes he desired without damaging Iran’s international standing or terrifying it’s neighbors into the arms of the Americans.

Hersh is a stooge – just not for the reasons you believe. Perhaps his Jewish last name makes you believe that he is a zionist. I’ve learned that Israel’s greatest detractors – like Noam Chomsky – are Jews, and it’s greatest supporters are often not.

By: Jawad De Morosini

Jawad De Morosini — Sun, 27 May 2007 17:44:58 +0000

A prime example is the writing of investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, who is a constant reference for the progressives. In his latest article (New Yorker, 11/27/06), Hersh excludes any mention of the Jewish Lobby and its powerful role as the only major national organization in support of a war with Iran. In his earlier texts on the Iraq war planning and execution, he pointedly omitted identifying the long-standing and deep ties of top Pentagon policymakers (Wolfowitz, Feith, Rubin, Perle, Shumsky, et. al.) with the Israeli state. By systematically omitting mention of the Zionist power configuration in pushing US policy toward a war with Iran, he undermines any effort by his readers in the peace movement to act against the principal architects of a pre-emptive war on Iran. Even worse, in his article, Hersh repeats Israeli (and Lobby) fabricated propaganda about Iran’s imminent nuclear bomb threat together with his reportage on a CIA detailed study discounting those very claims. In a word, Hersh gives legitimacy and credibility to Israeli-Lobby war propaganda, while sowing doubts about serious studies by the UN-sponsored International Atomic Energy Agency, which refutes Israeli claims. What is laughable about Hersh’s ‘investigative’ reporting is his breathless references to ‘anonymous high placed sources’ who provide ‘highly confidential’ information, which has already been public knowledge for weeks and sometimes months and reported on web-sites, in public documents and even by news services. Whatever ‘inside dope’ that Hersh cites which has not been public is based on anonymous sources which can never be double checked or verified and whose analysis incidentally coincides with Hersh’s peculiar penchant for blaming the Gentiles (WASPS) and exonerating the brethren.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:56:03 +0000

Hersh, and all of his US-hating Liberal friends, continue to publish anything that makes America look bad, whether it is true or not, and ignoring the atrocities committed by our enemies. Sometimes they even attribute those atrocities to the US military.

They all hate America for one reason or another. Some for the invasion of Iraq, some for just fighting back against terrorism, some because they hate capitalism and true democracy, and some just because they hate George Bush.

But they all choose to live in America. Why? Because of the protection of their rights to say and publish these things, for the stability of the country, for the peaceful and luxurious lifestyle they are accustomed to, and for the money they make publishing this trash.

If they truly wanted to live by their convictions, they’d move to Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, or Gaza. They all make me sick.

By: ligneus

ligneus — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 01:47:54 +0000

Not a word from Hershey Nutbar about the Palis and Hezbollocks’s staged massacres of ‘civilians’ I suppose. It’s the smugness of these lefty propagandists that really gets up my nose.