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MsPithy

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50. At numerous times in the last few years, an attack on Iran has

Sat Sep 28, 2013, 04:11 PM

Sep 2013

been imminent. It is the neocon's and military industrial complex's fondest dream. They are dangerous and they will never stop pushing "The Next War," agenda.

Just because Obama and Kerry and Rouhani have pulled us back from the edge, does not mean that we have not been standing on the edge since the Bush administration.

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Seymour Hersh is just mad that he won't be able to sell as many books. [View all] Cali_Democrat Sep 2013 OP

Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2013 #1

He's all about the book sales. n/t Cali_Democrat Sep 2013 #2

I have more respect for him than that. He has disclosed important information over the years. Shrike47 Sep 2013 #42

He could make $$ on it treestar Sep 2013 #23

Your character assassination is only effective on the faithful whatchamacallit Sep 2013 #3

Lunch with the Chairman Octafish Sep 2013 #61

Is it official? G_j Sep 2013 #4

Anti-Christ of the day is perfect! I wonder how they decide? Colbert style ThreatDown board, TheKentuckian Sep 2013 #17

It's a so called investigative reporter treestar Sep 2013 #25

he is not a team player noiretextatique Sep 2013 #54

He is a big old meanie! QC Sep 2013 #74

No, the Truther of the day. nt geek tragedy Sep 2013 #20

Whoa...Are we allowed to use the T**** word in mixed company? Junkdrawer Sep 2013 #21

Some people take it as a compliment. nt geek tragedy Sep 2013 #30

Hard to imagine someone becoming so corrupt that T**** seeking.... Junkdrawer Sep 2013 #33

Apparently. The usual people have been working hard to throw him under the bus today. nt Mojorabbit Sep 2013 #69

I think he's gone the way of Pierre Salinger. It happens when people age and those MADem Sep 2013 #5

Ah, ye old ageism smear whatchamacallit Sep 2013 #8

I beg your pardon---I can talk about aging, I'm in the thick of it. MADem Sep 2013 #14

Post removed Post removed Sep 2013 #16

Well said... SidDithers Sep 2013 #39

Thank you, Sid! nt MADem Sep 2013 #40

"talking ragtime" grasswire Sep 2013 #41

I'm not the author, I can take no credit! MADem Sep 2013 #43

I hope you didn't alert on whatchamacallit (nt) muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #60

Did you? nt MADem Sep 2013 #64

No, but someone did, when they were just saying to you what you said about Hersh muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #66

I didn't call Hersh's comments "senile blather." MADem Sep 2013 #68

Thanks for explaining that so thoroughly for those who don't know the Cha Sep 2013 #75

All those words, and you've avoided saying whether you alerted or not muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #81

And you keep wrongly equating criticism of a public figure to personal insults on DU. MADem Sep 2013 #94

Glad someone did. zappaman Sep 2013 #65

It figures! Thanks for the elucidation, MADem.. just as Cha Sep 2013 #73

well done. Whisp Sep 2013 #85

It's not necessarily a smear treestar Sep 2013 #27

President Obama is a ProSense Sep 2013 #6

Or, conversely, LWolf Sep 2013 #7

Seymour's job is to sell books Cali_Democrat Sep 2013 #10

Which is beside my point. nt LWolf Sep 2013 #11

yawn G_j Sep 2013 #9

He didn't criticize Obama treestar Sep 2013 #28

No one gives a shit about someone's supposed left wing credentials. randome Sep 2013 #31

"No one gives a shit about someone's supposed left wing credentials." morningfog Sep 2013 #71

He'll keep on trying to smear Obama, no matter how long it takes. riqster Sep 2013 #12

exactly! Hersh is a right-wing Republcian neocon - everyone knows that Douglas Carpenter Sep 2013 #84

Not sure I buy that. riqster Sep 2013 #86

Please be a little more serious. Wilms Sep 2013 #13

You are saying that the neo-cons didn't want war with Iran? They did and they were The Second Stone Sep 2013 #15

Well, of course the My Lai story turned out to be true. Wilms Sep 2013 #18

LBJ was, and he's often been used as a treestar Sep 2013 #29

That may or may not be true. Wilms Sep 2013 #37

........ marmar Sep 2013 #19

That didn't take long. n/t winter is coming Sep 2013 #22

You're just mad that someone, anywhere is not of The Body. It always what you are mad about. TheKentuckian Sep 2013 #24

DU rec...nt SidDithers Sep 2013 #26

Jealous? hobbit709 Sep 2013 #32

Ugly attacks like this should be beneath DU. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2013 #34

Are you fucking serious? Drunken Irishman Sep 2013 #51

Sooo... tavernier Sep 2013 #53

So who do you think approves the drone strikes? muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #62

And that has what to do with Iran? Drunken Irishman Sep 2013 #67

Um, *your own post* above changed the topic MannyGoldstein Sep 2013 #78

'heartless warmonger' is the charge typically thrown at Obama for the drone strikes muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #80

It has been a charge thrown at him for Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran. Drunken Irishman Sep 2013 #87

And this summer, the period *you* specified, it was about drone strikes muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #88

No it was not. Drunken Irishman Sep 2013 #89

Google 'September' and 'season' (nt) muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #90

I get a lot of premiere dates for TV shows. Drunken Irishman Sep 2013 #91

And do they say "This September - new for this summer!"? (nt) muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #92

I don't know. I closed out. Drunken Irishman Sep 2013 #93

Somehow I don't think you're gonna see too many Americans who want to go after the OregonBlue Sep 2013 #35

Seymour Hersch never really loved him!!! QC Sep 2013 #36

FACTS over speculation. Hershe is in wingnut territory. JaneyVee Sep 2013 #38

her she? grasswire Sep 2013 #44

Probably not, trypewiting ettor or a reference to rubbish chocolate n/r intaglio Sep 2013 #57

No. Hershey, PA. Wilms Sep 2013 #58

I hear Seymour has boxes under that bus DJ13 Sep 2013 #45

Where's the bus up there? Hydra Sep 2013 #46

I heard that he was once in the same room as a pole dancer. n/t QC Sep 2013 #47

Nooooooooooo DJ13 Sep 2013 #49

Saying not one word of the Osama Bin Laden raid's true is NUTTY. DevonRex Sep 2013 #48

At numerous times in the last few years, an attack on Iran has MsPithy Sep 2013 #50

Wow, you guys work fast! nt delrem Sep 2013 #52

Except that he's broken many stories that were TRUE. Th1onein Sep 2013 #55

As I've said, there's money to be made keeping people hating Iran Scootaloo Sep 2013 #56

You fell for it, too? Cerridwen Sep 2013 #59

Another thread from the DU "Authors are Evil" crowd muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #63

Dont you just hate it when people have opinions different from the approved status-quo. nm rhett o rick Sep 2013 #70

Fuck Ron Paul. n/t Cali_Democrat Sep 2013 #72

I second that. nm rhett o rick Sep 2013 #79

This probably really pissed him off then.. Cha Sep 2013 #76

Do you have any evidence - any at all - MannyGoldstein Sep 2013 #77

exactly!! Douglas Carpenter Sep 2013 #82

Are you accusing me of making unsubstantiated claims? Cali_Democrat Sep 2013 #95

I bet his "revelations" about the "My Lai Massacre" were just a scam to make money too Douglas Carpenter Sep 2013 #83