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Seymour Hersh

And then, of course, Bush won reelection, with everything out there, all of our complaints, all of the issues, all of the troubles with Iraq. So where are we? Bush certainly sees himself as having been given an endorsement. He was asked about accountability in an interview, about why Rumsfeld, Rice, and Wolfowitz have been promoted, these people who led us into the debacle in Iraq. Bush said there was accountability – it was the election. So there we are.

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At a meeting in her office in the late summer of 2002, months before the war in Iraq, prisoner abuse at Guantanamo is discussed. Condoleezza Rice brings in Donald Rumsfeld for a meeting, and they all agree they have to do something. Nothing gets done. Did everybody understand we were going to be as tough as we could be people we thought were Al Qaeda? Is there a better way to get information, get their trust, establish rapport, try to change their views? Nobody wants to think about that. It’s just, let’s beat them up. And that attitude was widespread throughout the Administration.

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Charles Graner is certainly guilty of terrible misjudgment. There’s always a double standard. Everyone was happy to go to Graner’s trial and write stories about how bad he is. And he is. But every time he tried to get an officer to testify, the officer either would invoke the Fifth Amendment or the judge would refuse to allow him to testify. We really didn’t air out the issues.

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Essentially Rumsfeld wins, Cheney wins, and the CIA and State Department lose. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld have more centralized control over intelligence, analysis, and operations than ever before. And the way they interpret the law, if the President authorizes an intelligence mission to be run covertly by the Pentagon, they don’t have to tell anybody, including Congress, about it because the President is the commander in chief.

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Few knew in 2000 that Bush was going to end up with neoconservatives all over the place. And once 9/11 happened, I think it’s fair to say that eight or nine neocons have had an enormous influence. The whole solution to every problem was to go after Iraq. This had been a neoconservative mantra for ten years. There was no secret about it.

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Years

Few knew in 2000 that George W. Bush was going to end up with neoconservatives all over the place. Once 9/11 happened, I think it’s fair to say that some neocons have had an enormous influence. The whole solution to every problem was to go after Iraq. This had been a neoconservative mantra for ten years. Bush certainly sees himself as having been given an endorsement. He was asked why Donald Rumsfeld,Condoleezza Rice, and Paul Wolfowitz have been promoted, these people who led us into the debacle in Iraq. Bush said there was accountability-it was the election. So there we are.

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Grab whom you must. Do what you want.

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How can you have a security guarantee? The Europeans can give their security guarantees to Iran all they want in return for their stopping their enrichment. But as long as America says we’re going to stay out here and we’re not going to drop the stick, we’re going to pound you if we have to, it’s not going to work.

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I always thought Henry Kissinger was a disaster because he lies like most people breathe and you can’t have that in public life.

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I can tell you one thing: It doesn’t matter what the American people think. There’s going to be an awful lot more body bags.

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Quotes by Seymour Hersh

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Grab whom you must. Do what you want.

I always thought Henry Kissinger was a disaster because he lies like most people breathe and you can’t have that in public life.

I can tell you one thing: It doesn’t matter what the American people think. There’s going to be an awful lot more body bags.

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