The Iran Drumbeat grows louder.
You're kidding me, right?
This may just be posturing to shape negotiations, but I doubt it. Sy Hersh, as one of the breakers of the Abu Ghraib story as well as others, is not the person they would over the board leak to if they were running a "pressurize Iran" operation. Certainly, it could have been done backchannel without his knowledge he was being used, figuring his credibility as an administration enemy would lend weight to the threat, but I'm still inclined to think that this may be real.
Also, c'mon guys. Hitler? I thought Saddam was Hitler. And then wasn't Osama like Hitler, Mao and Stalin?
Here is the original New Yorker piece. It's long and discursive, but it has a lot of inormation and is well worth the read.
"That's the name they're using," the report quoted a former senior intelligence official as saying.
This may just be posturing to shape negotiations, but I doubt it. Sy Hersh, as one of the breakers of the Abu Ghraib story as well as others, is not the person they would over the board leak to if they were running a "pressurize Iran" operation. Certainly, it could have been done backchannel without his knowledge he was being used, figuring his credibility as an administration enemy would lend weight to the threat, but I'm still inclined to think that this may be real.
Also, c'mon guys. Hitler? I thought Saddam was Hitler. And then wasn't Osama like Hitler, Mao and Stalin?
Here is the original New Yorker piece. It's long and discursive, but it has a lot of inormation and is well worth the read.
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