Seymour Hersh spills the secrets of the Iraq quagmire and war on terror

[Roland99]

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/10/11_hersh.shtml

The Iraq war is not winnable, a secret U.S. military unit has been "disappearing" people since December 2001, and America has no idea how irreparably its torture of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison has damaged its image in the Middle East. These were just a few of the grim pronouncements made by Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter Seymour "Sy" Hersh to KQED host Michael Krasny before a Berkeley audience on Friday night (Oct. 8).

The past two years will "go down as one of the classic sort of failures" in history, said the man who has been called the "greatest muckraker of all time" and (paradoxically) the "enfant terrible of journalism for more than 30 years." While Hersh blamed the White House and the Pentagon for the Iraq quagmire and America's besmirched world image, he was stymied by how it all happened. "How could eight or nine neoconservatives come and take charge of this government?" he asked. "They overran the bureaucracy, they overran the Congress, they overran the press, and they overran the military! So you say to yourself, How fragile is this democracy?"


VIDEO:
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/events/replay.html?event_id=170

[Roland99]

1. Wow...what a great speech/interview of Hersh!

REALLY nailing Bush/Cheney and the ideologues!


Says Dulfer was a "patsy" of the administration when he worked for UNSCOM.

[AliceWonderland]

2. Thanks for posting

How fragile indeed.

[fujiyama]

3. Hersh

is a hero. He has exposed more of this corrupt regime in the last 4 years than probably anyone else in thhe field of journalism.

Keep on fighting. Keep exposing the truth even when it hurts and is not pretty. He's been doing it for over 30 years.

[rumguy]

4. whew!

[deckerd]

5. Hersh said he was sitting on something MAJOR, remember? Was that just BS?