I heard about this on the Thom Hartmann show yesterday, and I was interested enough to go dig up a link.
Sy Hersh - the guy that I believe singlehandedly drummed up enough opposition to keep Cheney from invading Iran before Bush got out of office - is now saying that the US military is waging war on the Obama White House.
He should know. Mr. Hersh is one of the few people who represented a voice of sanity and reason during the Iraq War, and the war fervor for invading Iran. And very brave to publish his views on the subject.
The army is also "in a war against the White House — and they feel they have Obama boxed in," Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh told several hundred people in Duke University’s Page Auditorium on Tuesday night. "They think he’s weak and the wrong color. Yes, there’s racism in the Pentagon. We may not like to think that, but it’s true and we all know it."
In a speech on Obama’s foreign policy, Hersh, who uncovered the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War and torture at Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraqi war, said many military leaders want Obama to fail.
"A lot of people in the Pentagon would like to see him get into trouble," he said. By leaking information that the commanding officer in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, says the war would be lost without an additional 40,000 American troops, top brass have put Obama in a no-win situation, Hersh contended.
"If he gives them the extra troops they’re asking for, he loses politically," Hersh said. "And if he doesn’t give them the troops, he also loses politically."
http://www.heraldsun.com/...
via CrooksandLiars