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-Caveat Lector- I still wonder if the Iraq war was not a deliberate mistake.
John
http://www.tuftsdaily.com/articleDisplay.jsp?a_id=2615
The Tufts Daily | November 13, 2003
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist says Iraq is a massive failure
Jin-Min Lee | Daily Staff Writer
Pulitzer Prize-winner Seymour M. Hersh criticized the Bush administration's
operations in Iraq as a "massive failure" during a lecture at the FletcherSchool yesterday. He is the winner of a Pulitzer-Prize and regular
contributor to The New Yorker.
The biggest problem, according to Hersh, is that "there are no
weapons 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 an
issue there, but I don't think so," he said.
Hersh believes the majority of the weapons in Iraq were gone by theearly 90s, most by 1991. "How come in twelve years we never figured out
what really happened? It's an amazing failure," he said.
Hersh said what the US now needs to do is accept the truth thatSaddam did remove his WMDs more than a decade ago. He said this also raises
a 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 gonna
hold 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 regional
impact 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. "The
picture," however, "is gloomy in the short-run. Our allies are bailing out
like crazy," he added.
Hersh predicted "real trouble" for the President in the 2004
elections. "You have a war fought by the underclass, financed by the
underclass and for the profit of the upperclass," He said. "I think Bush's
going to lose [the election], unless he makes some radical change, which
he's not going to do."
The operation in Iraq has put pressure on the President, Hershsaid. "Bush's got money troubles, troop troubles; he's going to have to
hold it. I just don't see any way out."
In the past weeks, problems within Iraq have increased. 40 USsoldiers have been killed in the past 10 days. 116 soldiers were killed
during the entire war, which ended officially in May.
On the current situation in Iraq, Hersh said "it's a mafia economyon the street level. That's way below the level of our operations." Hersh
spoke of riding gangs and oil being smuggled in from Turkey. "It's worseevery day, we are basically nowhere." He also pointed to the potential
danger of leaving US troops in Iraq. "In the army, the only thing thatmatters is loyalty to your fellow soldiers."
As the soldiers watch their friends perish in Iraq, "they are goingto start taking it to the people and to the wrong people." He ended the
lecture with a sarcastic remark. "I'm glad to share my joy with you."
During the Q&A session, Hersh also spoke against the notion that
without 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 peacekeeping
forces, not American forces, who speak the language," Hersh said.
After the lecture, Leila Fawaz, Fletcher's Issam M. Fares Professor
of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies, said Hersh "had a lot of
courage to face unpleasant roof. I thought he did it in order to help the
US come out on top. I hope his message is heard."
Roham Alvandi, a second-year Fletcher student and an Iranian, said
he agreed with Hersh's views on the improving US-Iran relations. "It's a
privilege to hear him speak. He's an insider," Alvandi said.
Hersh won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for his reporting on the My
Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
The speaker was presented by Richard H. Shultz, Professor of
International Politics at Fletcher.
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