Seymour Hersh and Ameican Journalism
When the Watergate scandal broke out more than 30 years back two journalists working with the Washington Post were instrumental in exposing the deciet and tissue of lies and falsehoods which clouded the excecutive branch at that time. This led to the exit of Richard Nixon from the White House. The Watergate was at best a botched attempt at political skullduggery, but what hag happened in the name of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq is far worse. Relentless attacks on civillian targets killing and amiming hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and sustained attempts at intimidating the population by torture and mayhem. Seymour Hersh has documented these and other crimes in his The Chain of Command, awork that must be read by any one interested in the future of US relations with the Islamic world. Unlike Woodward who had an undisclosed "deep throat"this work is based on solid documentation, the sheer detail of which will overwhelm everyone but the most virulent Bushman. International law is clear that violation of the rights of civillians constitutes war crime and even if the USA has not acceded to the International Court of Criminal Justice, the crimes in Iraq will stand exposed just as Saddam's was.
This book is a great read and I hope it will influence the way people vote on November 2.