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-Caveat Lector- I still wonder if the Iraq war was not a deliberate mistake.Johnhttp://www.tuftsdaily.com/articleDisplay.jsp?a_id=2615Jin-Min Lee | Daily Staff WriterPulitzer Prize-winner Seymour M. Hersh criticized the Bush administration'soperations in Iraq as a "massive failure" during a lecture at the FletcherSchool yesterday. He is the winner of a Pulitzer-Prize and regularcontributor to The New Yorker.The biggest problem, according to Hersh, is that "there are noweapons of mass destruction [WMD]." Hersh found it "unnerving" that USauthorities sincerely believed in the existence of WMD in Iraq."A lot of people I like and respected really thought there was anissue there, but I don't think so," he said.early 90s, most by 1991. "How come in twelve years we never figured outwhat really happened? It's an amazing failure," he said.Saddam did remove his WMDs more than a decade ago. He said this also raisesa reliability question on the US intelligence information on North Koreaother regions of the world.Speaking on Bush's stance on the war, Hersh said "Bush is gonnahold Iraq. It's the super arrogance of the American power. And thePresident believes that that's the mission of America."The President's plan had included a vision of significant regionalimpact beyond Iraq, the journalist said. "I think the initial plan was verygrandiose. They thought, maybe get a regime change [in Iraq], thencertainly Iran would change, and this would take the pressure off theIsraelis, and Sharon would make a more progressive move," Hersh said. "Thepicture," however, "is gloomy in the short-run. Our allies are bailing outlike crazy," he added.Hersh predicted "real trouble" for the President in the 2004elections. "You have a war fought by the underclass, financed by theunderclass and for the profit of the upperclass," He said. "I think Bush'sgoing to lose [the election], unless he makes some radical change, whichhe's not going to do."said. "Bush's got money troubles, troop troubles; he's going to have tohold it. I just don't see any way out."soldiers have been killed in the past 10 days. 116 soldiers were killedduring the entire war, which ended officially in May.on the street level. That's way below the level of our operations." Hershspoke of riding gangs and oil being smuggled in from Turkey. "It's worseevery day, we are basically nowhere." He also pointed to the potentialdanger of leaving US troops in Iraq. "In the army, the only thing thatmatters is loyalty to your fellow soldiers."to start taking it to the people and to the wrong people." He ended thelecture with a sarcastic remark. "I'm glad to share my joy with you."During the Q&A session, Hersh also spoke against the notion thatwithout the US presence, there will be wild chaos in Iraq. "But there iswild chaos now," he said. "What I would really like to see is peacekeepingforces, not American forces, who speak the language," Hersh said.After the lecture, Leila Fawaz, Fletcher's Issam M. Fares Professorof Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies, said Hersh "had a lot ofcourage to face unpleasant roof. I thought he did it in order to help theUS come out on top. I hope his message is heard."Roham Alvandi, a second-year Fletcher student and an Iranian, saidhe agreed with Hersh's views on the improving US-Iran relations. "It's aprivilege to hear him speak. He's an insider," Alvandi said.Hersh won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for his reporting on the MyLai massacre during the Vietnam War.The speaker was presented by Richard H. Shultz, Professor ofInternational Politics at Fletcher.
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