He as enough credentials and people against him (Kennedy clan most famously) that his work seems to bear truth. Recall that Hersh was one of the first journalists to break the news about JFK's bigamist marriage and mob ties- (Hersh apparently claims that JFK was married to Durie Malcolm and the marriage was never properly annulled prior to his other marriage and that JFK had long standing mob ties relationship with mobster "The Cigar" Giancana. In addition, Hersh broke the news about how Clinton bombed the aspirin factory in Sudan.

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In the interview Blitzer doesn’t appear as concerned about the cover-up and career-ending lid put on Gen Taguba, or the atrocities at Abu Ghraib as he is about Hersh’s article, saying that the article itself is “disturbing”. Put that way, he makes the problem the fault of Hersh’s journalism. Blitzer and others are always putting a subtle twist to things.

Robert Lightfoot

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Lyndie England had a penchant for taking nude photos of herself and her Sgt. boyfriend. Because of a lack of supervision by the commander of Abu Ghraib, Gen. Janis Karpinsky, this resulted in the pictures that came about.

Nothing more, nothing less. End of story.

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So why does the Bush Regime support such horrors? The answer is pure racism-- to teach the inferior Arab races to obey the superior breed of human being, the American. Just as with the Nazis, this regime acts as if inferiors can murdered and tortured because they are not fully human beings. How would you explain it?-- Joe

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An excerpt from the book Blackwater-The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill.
In September 200, just months before its members would form the core of the Bush White House, the Project for a New American Century released a report called Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century. In laying out PNAC's vision for overhauling the US war machine, the report recognized that "the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor." A year to the month later, the 9/11 attacks would provide the catalyst: an unprecedented justification to forge ahead with this radical agenda molded by a small cadre of neoconservative operatives who had just taken official power.
The often-overlook subplot of the wars of the post 9/11 period is the outsourcing and privatization they have entailed. From the moment the Bush team took power, the Pentagon was stacked with:
THE IDEOLOGUES:
Paul Wolfowitz
Douglas Feith
Zalmay Khalilzad
Stephen Cambone
FORMER CORPORATE EXECUTIVES:
Under Secretary of Defense Pete Aldridge (Aerospace Corporation)
Army Secretary Thomas White (Enron)
Navy Secretary Gordon England (General Dynamics)
Air Force Secretary James Roche (Northrop Grumman)
The new civilian leadership at the Pentagon came into power with two major goals: regime change in strategic nations and the enactment of the most sweeping privatization and outsourcing operation in the US military history - a revolution in military affairs. After 9/11 this campaign became unstoppable.
The Commander in Chief is responsible for everything that happens on his watch. Just as a Captain of a ship in the US Navy is relieved of his command when something happens on his watch.

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