Seymour Hersh: Story About Killing Osama Bin Laden is One Big Lie

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299. That isn't Evidence of Tin Hat CT

Hersh is simply summarizing what was years ago revealed/reported on by military veterans.

For the Military Commanders/Officers these wars were very much a Christian Crusade, and this was given a lot of attention during the BushCo regime's illegal invasion of Iraq and war in Afghanistan.

Frankly, I'm really surprised that anyone here on DU would provide a link of McChrystal's denials, as if his denials were in the least bit credible.

Seriously!

I recall several reportings from various veterans in the earlier years. Most notably former Air Force Officer Michael Weinstein.

Here's an excerpt of just one of his several articles on the subject :


The United States Military ... a Crusader Force?

Case in point: the recent decision to rename Beaufort, South Carolina-based Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 122 (VMFA-122) the "Crusaders" and adopt the red cross of the crusading medieval Knights Templar.

This alarming decision to rechristen the jet fighter squadron as "Crusaders" threatens to reignite the explosive tension and anti-American rage that exists across the Muslim world. "Crusader" is an epithet that is routinely used to describe US military personnel throughout the Arab and Islamic world. A phrase which literally means "taking up the cross," Crusader recalls a history of colonization and campaigns of conquest and plunder spearheaded by European Christian military orders. Spanning three centuries and starting in the year 1096, the crusades viciously claimed the lives of millions of inhabitants of the Middle East. While motivated by the secular incentives of lucre and mammon, the Crusades serve as a hideous testament to the noxious danger embodied by the foreboding alloy of weaponized theology.

Among other things he wrote : With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military

There were other reportings on this bit of history and given attention here on DU during those years... Hersh by no means has revealed anything new.

Just isn't given the attention or notice in our media, like so much else.

Surprise, surprise..