[Mb-civic] FW: Statement from Pentagon Spokesman Lawrence DiRita onLatest Seymour Hersh Article

[Robin McNamara]

I tend to believe that Bush & the boys do have Iran in the crosshairs with 
precision strikes on nuclear sites, whether Hersh is right or wrong. He 
might not be right on the precise meetings & other details( but then again 
maybe he is) but that doesn't really matter if the overall plan is for our 
war monger leaders to attack regardless of how the plan is devised. If we do 
go into Iran the mother of all battles will begin.

Peace
Robin





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From: "Golsorkhi" <grgolsorkhi at earthlink.net>
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Subject: [Mb-civic] FW: Statement from Pentagon Spokesman Lawrence DiRita 
onLatest Seymour Hersh Article



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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:52:49 -0500
Subject: Fwd: Statement from Pentagon Spokesman Lawrence DiRita on Latest
Seymour Hersh Article



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>
> IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 17, 2005
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------
>
> Statement from Pentagon Spokesman Lawrence DiRita on Latest Seymour
> Hersh
>  Article
> The Iranian regime¹s apparent nuclear ambitions and its
>  demonstrated support for terrorist organizations is a global
> challenge that
>  deserves much more serious treatment than Seymour Hersh provides in
> the New
>  Yorker article titled ³The Coming Wars.²
>
> Mr. Hersh¹s article is so riddled with errors of fundamental
> fact that the credibility of his entire piece is destroyed.
>
> Mr. Hersh¹s source(s) feed him with rumor, innuendo, and
>  assertions about meetings that never happened, programs that do not
> exist,
> and statements by officials that were never made.
>
> A sampling from this article alone includes:
>
> The post-election meeting he describes between the Secretary of
> Defense and
> the Joint Chiefs of Staff did not happen.
>
> The only civilians in the chain-of-command are the President and the
> Secretary of Defense, despite Mr. Hersh¹s confident assertion that the
> chain
> of command now includes two Department policy officials. His assertion
> is
> outrageous, and constitutionally specious.
>
> Arrangements Mr. Hersh alleges between Under Secretary Douglas Feith
> and
> Israel, government or non-government, do not exist. Here, Mr. Hersh is
> building on links created by the soft bigotry of some conspiracy
> theorists.
> This reflects poorly on Mr. Hersh and the New Yorker.
>
> Mr. Hersh cannot even keep track of his own wanderings. At one point
> in his
> article, he makes the outlandish assertion that the military
> operations he
> describes are so secret that the operations are being kept secret even
> from
> U.S. military Combatant Commanders. Mr. Hersh later states, though,
> that
> the locus of this super-secret activity is at the U.S. Central Command
> headquarters, evidently without the knowledge of the commander if Mr.
> Hersh
> is to be believed.
>
> By his own admission, Mr. Hersh evidently is working on an
>  ³alternative history² novel. He is well along in that work, given the
> high
> quality of ³alternative present² that he has developed in several
> recent
> articles.
>
> Mr. Hersh¹s preference for single, anonymous, unofficial sources
> for his most fantastic claims makes it difficult to parse his
> discussion of
> Defense Department operations.
>
> Finally, the views and policies Mr. Hersh ascribes to Secretary
> Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz, Under Secretary Feith, and other
> Department of Defense officials do not reflect their public or private
>  comments or administration policy.
>
> http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2005/nr20050117-1987.html
>


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