HERSH interview with Blitzer--scary stuff.

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CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER

Interview With Mowaffak Al-Rubaie; Interview With Seymour Hersh

Aired November 27, 2005 - 11:00 ET


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>...... HERSH: And of England and Tony Blair. Yes, absolutely. I think he's the dark horse. We'd like him to take control.
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> He's a secular -- I think the worry is obvious that everybody's getting aware more and more that we're on the edge of a civil war if we're not in one already. And he's seen as somebody that can support or get some support from the Sunnis, and also because he's a Shia, he can also get support there, secular, not religious.
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> BLITZER: He's popular in Washington and London. But the question is, is he popular in Iraq? Because he didn't do well in the last elections.
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> HERSH: Despite our best efforts, we pushed hard for him both legally and illegally, as I wrote earlier. And I think we're prepared to go all the way again. One doesn't know. One doesn't know, by the way, whether these elections have much meaning anyway in terms of what's, you know, what's really happening around the edges. I say it is a civil war there. And it's not in our hands, I think, very much.
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> BLITZER:.......

[Warpy]

1. I predicted that before the invasion

No matter what lofty ideals Stupid claims, the only possible outcome of this is civil war. The only choice is whether or not our military will be caught in the crossfire.

To be completely fair about this, I still think civil war was inevitable to the point it would happen as soon as Saddam Hussein died, and he wasn't in the best of health, even before the war. I sincerely doubt the Iraqis would have accepted either of his sons.

At any rate, the only way the US could have salvaged this whole exercise in foreign policy stupidity came at the very beginning. They could have hired Iraqi contractors and put the Iraqi people back to work instead of using the country for a corporate feeding frenzy at US taxpayer expense, leaving the Iraqis with 70% unemployment and no hope for the future. If we had put them back to work at the beginning, we could have extricated ourselves within months.

As it is, we'll be there until someone who hates us takes enough control to throw us out. It will happen. The only question is how many will have to die needlessly before it does.

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2. Bush & criminals are telling us lies about Iraq...

I think that we can bring our troops home tomorrow, if they wanted. The problem is that big oil wants to take over the oil fields and the people of Iraq are fighting to keep what its theirs. If the US leaves, the Iraqi people will get on their feet and other countries will come to their rescue. Other countries don't want in now because they will not help out in the mess bush/cheney have created in Iraq. They broke it, they must own it and eat it.