SEYMOUR HERSH: "The President Has Accepted Ethnic Cleansing"

[kpete]

INTERVIEW WITH INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST SEYMOUR HERSH
'The President Has Accepted Ethnic Cleansing'

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has consistently led the way in telling the story of what's really going on in Iraq and Iran. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke to him about America's Hitler, Bush's Vietnam, and how the US press failed the First Amendment.

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SPIEGEL ONLINE: .......How much does the West really know about the nuclear program in Iran?

Seymour Hersh: A lot. And it's been underestimated how much the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) knows. If you follow what (IAEA head Mohamed) ElBaradei (more...) and the various reports have been saying, the Iranians have claimed to be enriching uranium to higher than a 4 percent purity, which is the amount you need to run a peaceful nuclear reactor. But the IAEA's best guess is that they are at 3.67 percent or something. The Iranians are not even doing what they claim to be doing. The IAEA has been saying all along that they've been making progress but basically, Iran is nowhere. Of course the US and Israel are going to say you have to look at the worst case scenario, but there isn't enough evidence to justify a bombing raid.

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SPIEGEL ONLINE: So what are the options in Iraq?

SEYMOUR HERSH: There are two very clear options:

Option A) Get everybody out by midnight tonight.

Option B) Get everybody out by midnight tomorrow.

The fuel that keeps the war going is us.

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SPIEGEL ONLINE:So what are the lessons of the Surge (more...)?

SEYMOUR HERSH: The Surge means basically that, in some way, the president has accepted ethnic cleansing, whether he's talking about it or not. When he first announced the Surge in January, he described it as a way to bring the parties together. He's not saying that any more. I think he now understands that ethnic cleansing is what is going to happen. You're going to have a Kurdistan. You're going to have a Sunni area that we're going to have to support forever. And you're going to have the Shiites in the South.


much more at:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,508394,00.html

[kenny blankenship]

1. "a Sunni area that we're going to have to support forever"=protectorate=cat's paw

We're not going to be supporting them forever for no reason!
Anbar will be our permanent foothold in Iraq, even if the Baghdad government demands that we leave.

If we can't control Iraq as a unified country, we can still control parts of it--and that way keep anyone else from controlling Iraq.

[Junkdrawer]

2. Hersh: There are two very clear options (in Iraq):

Option A) Get everybody out by midnight tonight.
Option B) Get everybody out by midnight tomorrow.

The fuel that keeps the war going is us.

:applause:

[kpete]

3. thanks Junkdrawer

I changed my post to include your post, kp

[leftofthedial]

4. ditto

that's the fact.

[seemslikeadream]

5. America's Hitler n/t

[Swamp Rat]

6. Of course he "has accepted ethnic cleansing." He even accepts it in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

[McCamy Taylor]

7. Sy Hersch often speaks for the Pentagon....

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. Accepted?

Encouraged....

[The Count]

10. Andrew Roberts, - an UK white supremacist (The History of the English Speaking People)

who is using language instead of skin color for the same ol' things was a guest of honor at the White House - and Bush expressed his admiration for his work...

[The Count]

9. Still doubtful about the "doing God's work" dealie...I usually believe Hirsch completely

but on this one, I think he bought one of W's many disguises - drunks are good at fooling people...I for one think Bush is totally cynical - and his motivation is the classical money and power rather than thinking he's doing God's work

[AntiFascist]

11. "the president has accepted ethnic cleansing"...

this fits in with the stated ideology of the right-wing whacko group that wants to wipe out most Iraqis and allow (Caucasian) Americans to take over the country. The Religious Right is more and more on the side of white supremists and Bush speaks for them.