The Greatest Jeneration - Mudville Gazette: On Seymour Hersh and trying to gin up another My Lai massacre

May 08, 2004

Mudville Gazette: On Seymour Hersh and trying to gin up another My Lai massacre

Greyhawk, writer of the very fine Mudville Gazette blog, chronicles the interview Bill O' Reilly did with Seymour Hersh of the NYSlimes and "Fisks" it good and proper.
Read the whole thing:
Mudville Gazette: The Greyhawk Factor

Did some of our U.S. military step out of line in their treatment of Iraqi war prisoners?
Looks like. They are going to be dealt with; President Bush and SecDef Rumsfeld will make sure, if not their C.O.s.
But the reaction from the Left side of the aisle in Washington led me to the inescapable conclusion that this issue wasn't about righteous indignation about a wartime SNAFU, but was only more fodder for the anti-America, anti-Bush, anti-war attack machine.
Their complete overreaction--calling for Rumsfeld's resignation (and Charlie Rangel (Dumbass-NY) even threw in an impeachment of Bush!) having a Congressional hearing for something the Pentagon was already investigating fully, and the usual holier-than-thou grandstanding by Dimocrat politicos for the media mikes and cameras--is more sickening to me than the abuse photos.

Hersh's name is a historical footnote because he was the reporter who "broke" the My Lai massacre story during the Vietnam War and it's clear the Left would love to have another My Lai in Iraq so that they could use this to discredit our military, the President and his Administration and ultimately bring about the end of the war itself, as they did with the Vietnam war.

As I've noted before, we also have a Dimocrat candidate for the Presidency who "made his political oats" testifying to Congress that he witnessed, as a Navy swift boat captain in Vietnam, "systemic" committment of war crimes by the U.S. military on the Enemy and that tacit permission to behave this way allegedly went "up and down" the entire military chain of command.
One of the stories that has been kept out of the media because of this Iraqi prison issue has been the press conference of Kerry's comrades-in-arms (Swift Boat Veterans for Truth) who want to take him to task for spreading these lies to the American public, including their family and loved ones and thereby, return the honor to the service they rendered to their country.

Because of his dishonesty about his fellow sailors in combat and also, due to the disingenuous way he supposedly earned his Purple Heart medals, and his failure, should he have witnessed other U.S. military committing war crimes, to report such crimes, which was his duty, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have publicly declared him "unfit for office" as Commander-in-Chief.
But the Left has been far busier than the Right.
It isn't over yet, but kudos to Greyhawk for getting down a Hersh-busting interview that is important!
Hersh's talking points are already being repeated by the Useful Idiot idiotarians on TV and radio talk shows around the country as "proof" that Abu Ghraib is the My Lai to our 21st Century Vietnam.