[THS] Seymour Hersh on Obama Being Dominated by the U.S. Military

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May 8th, 2010 9:29 PM
Seymour Hersh on Obama Being "Dominated" by the U.S. Military

Seymour Hersh spoke at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Geneva on
April 24, 2010

REPORTER: You didn't include Obama in your list of liar presidents. I'm wondering if
you would include him also?

HERSH: To use a basketball or a football analogy, American football, fourth quarter –
he may have a game plan. At this point he's in real trouble. Because the military are
dominating him on the important issues of the world: Iraq, Iran, Afghan and
Pakistan. And he's following the policies of Bush and Cheney almost to a fare-thee-
well. He talks differently. And he's much brighter, he's much more of the world. So
one only hopes he has a game plan that will include doing something, but he's in real
trouble, in terms of – he's in real trouble.

In Iraq I don't have to tell anybody the prospects – in the American press they never
mention Moqtada Sadr, but look out. He's going to be the kingmaker of that country.
He's now studying in Iran. And he's going to be the next ayatollah-to-be. I don't
know how he'll work it out with Sistani. But he's going to be the force, the Shia. And
so this is going to be very complicated for us because the two men we talk about,
Allawi and Maliki, have about as much to do with the average Iraqi – they're both ex-
pats. Allawi, let's see, he was certainly an American agent and a British agent, the
MI-6, the CIA, the Jordanians ran him probably for Mossad. I'm not telling you
anything that is not a fact. So who knows?

So Iraq is very problematical. There's going to be much more violence. Whether it's
civil war or not it's going to be much more violence.

He's never going to win, whatever that means, in Afghanistan. The only solution in
Afghanistan is a settlement with the Taliban. And the only person to settle with is
Mullah Omar, and he's become another Hitler to the American public. So how we're
going to do that and survive politically?

And the same in Pakistan. He's got the wrong policy there. So it is – and again for
Obama, Iran's not resolved, in terms of, the Iranians have come out of this crisis
stronger than ever. We don't want to believe that.