Tag Archive 'Seymour Hersh'

More than one of these statements in this Guardian article must be a lie

Following Book’s trendy new tradition of “spot the lie”, I had to include this article from that renown bastion of conservatism (you know, those people wedded to their confirmation biases), the U.K. Guardian, reports on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard gleefully anticipating the explosion of Iran’s first nuclear bomb: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/julian-borger-global-security-blog/2011/jun/08/iran-blogging   Ok, here’s where we play [...]

Seymour Hersh on why the military is giving Obama grief

I’ve long had a few simple principles when it comes to the American military: 1.  It is the most successfully integrated official organization in America, not just in terms of numbers, but in terms of an ethos that sees its members, not as skin colors, but as team mates. 2.  It’s goal is to accomplish [...]