From MM's site - Seymour Hersh says Obama dominated by dumb military ideas

[truedelphi]

If you have been watching your Televisions', you might not know it from any Big News Conglomerate mentioning it, but there was a Global Investigative Journalism Conference held in Geneva on April 24, 2010.

Here is some of what Seymour Hersh had to say:

HERSH: To use a basketball or a football analogy, American football, fourth quarter – Obama may have a game plan. At this point he's in real trouble. Because the military are dominating him on the important issues of the world: Iraq, Iran, Afghan and Pakistan. And he's following the policies of Bush and Cheney almost to a fare-thee-well. He talks differently. And he's much brighter, he's much more of the world. So one only hopes he has a game plan that will include doing something, but he's in real trouble, in terms of – he's in real trouble.

In Iraq I don't have to tell anybody the prospects – in the American press they never mention Moqtada Sadr, but look out. He's going to be the kingmaker of that country. He's now studying in Iran. And he's going to be the next ayatollah-to-be. I don't know how he'll work it out with Sistani. But he's going to be the force, the Shia.

And so this is going to be very complicated for us because the two men we talk about, Allawi and Maliki, have about as much to do with the average Iraqi – they're both ex-pats. Allawi, let's see, he was certainly an American agent and a British agent, the MI-6, the CIA, the Jordanians ran him probably for Mossad. I'm not telling you anything that is not a fact. So who knows?


You can read his complete set of remarks here:

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/must-read/seymour-hersh-obama-being-dominated-us-military


And Hersh doesn't think the military prospects that Obama has allowed to go on will bring us much in the way of success on any levels, other than perhaps as distractions from our environmental, and financial catastrophes.

[Bluebear]

1. 'And he's following the policies of Bush and Cheney almost to a fare-thee-well.'

Beep beep, Seymour, watch out for that bus!

[ixion]

2. When they hung Saddam, the people in the room chanted:

"Moqtada! Moqtada! Moqtada!"

Saddam rolled his eyes, and they pulled the lever.

One dictator was hung, one was born in that moment.

And I agree with Mr. Hersh. Obama if following Bush-Cheney military policies, and it's stupid to do so.