Obama “dominated” by US military: Seymour Hersh

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Seymour Hersh on Obama Being “Dominated” by the U.S. Military

Seymour Hersh spoke at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Geneva on April 24, 2010

REPORTER: You didn’t include Obama in your list of liar presidents. I’m wondering if you would include him also?

HERSH: To use a basketball or a football analogy, American football, fourth quarter – he 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?

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http://markcrispinmiller.com/2010/05/obama-dominated-by-us-military-seymour-hersh/

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

No sense rushing things.

Don

they have a budget of 600 BILLION dollars a year....cheney & bu$h* knew where their bread was buttered

which as a general rule is only found elsewhere in third world counties.

I'm glad we could all get together on this one OP and hate him together.

Lotta love in this room, tonight...

No matter how stupid their way is.

contradict their positions. The military asked for more troops in Afghanistan. Obama went along. At a certain point the military will have to show that more troops was productive. At that time, Obama can hold them accountable.

We need Universal Service... the sooner, the better!

We segued pretty quickly into the Cold war mentality and it continues to this day. Every president has lived in fear of "something happening", and has been scared into wild spending by the Defense department, even though we have pretty much always been the superior (and only?) BIG POWER in the world.

Our vast array of weaponry is still mostly for "show & tell", since boxcutters & car bombs have proved to be worthy adversaries.:(