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(27,509 posts) Tue Dec 10, 2013, 09:42 AM Dec 2013

Seymour Hersh on DemocracyNow: Obama "Cherry Picked" Intel on Syrian Chemical Attack (Part 1 of 2)

Seymour Hersh: Obama "Cherry Picked" Intel on Syrian Chemical Attack to Justify U.S. Strike (1 of 2)

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Published on Dec 9, 2013

http://www.democracynow.org - Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh joins us to discuss his new article casting doubt on the veracity of the Obama administration's claims that only the Assad regime could have carried out the chemical attacks in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta earlier this year. Writing in the London Review of Books, Hersh argues that the Obama administration "cherry-picked intelligence to justify a strike against Assad." The administration failed to disclose it knew Syrian rebels in the al-Nusra front had the ability to produce chemical weapons. Evidence obtained in the days after the attack was also allegedly distorted to make it appear it was gathered in real time.

Full transcript at http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/9/seymour_hersh_obama_cherry_picked_intelligence

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Part 2 bananas Dec 2013 #1

I definitely do not want GOP rule dotymed Dec 2013 #2

Just like Bush-Cheney. Old and In the Way Dec 2013 #3

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I believed that at the time. This just confirms my boomersense Dec 2013 #5

bananas

(27,509 posts)

1. Part 2

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Tue Dec 10, 2013, 09:43 AM

Dec 2013

dotymed

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2. I definitely do not want GOP rule

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Tue Dec 10, 2013, 10:29 AM

Dec 2013

and I do not want (but have) MIC and corporate rule...

We DO have choices.
THEY do not want us to realize this...."unless they are corporate picks, they are spoilers" meme....

Democratic Socialist (I), Bernie Sanders may run for POTUS.

He is not "a spoiler" if we unite and elect him.

His track record for Average Americans speaks for itself.

A peaceful revolution would be great.......

Old and In the Way

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3. Just like Bush-Cheney.

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Tue Dec 10, 2013, 10:51 AM

Dec 2013

Except, we got the WMD on the table and removed...and we didn't invade and kills 100's of thousands of innocent civilians in the process.

But maybe the opposition has WMD, too. If so, Seymour may be proven right when they launch their next attack. I find it hard to believe that the opposition smuggled them into Syrian Republican Guard zones to then fire onto the civilian population centers. Wouldn't it have made more sense for them just to aim these weapons at the Republican Guard in the first place?

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boomersense

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5. I believed that at the time. This just confirms my

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Tue Dec 10, 2013, 12:30 PM

Dec 2013

thoughts. And Iran? I would suggest they look at Syria, Libya, Iraq, etc before giving up too much--if they do indeed have WMD's (nukes) which I would imagine they do now--bought or produced. Will the US wisely switch to containment or start nuanced finessing toward war? I would bet the latter.

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