Barak told Cheney the only Iraq issue was size of our humiliation!

[DeepModem Mom]

With appreciation to LittleApple81 and seemslikeadream for posting the link to Seymour Hersh's killer interview with Wolf Blitzer today (in advance of a new Hersh New Yorker piece about Israeli involvement in Iraq) --

Take a look at another excerpt:


BLITZER: Let's talk about another quote you have in the new issue of The New Yorker. A former Israeli intelligence officer quoted as saying this about what you call Plan B: "It's over, not militarily -- the United States cannot be defeated militarily in Iraq -- but politically."...

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HERSH: (The Israelis have) been pessimistic for six months. I write about the fact that, beginning last summer, late last summer, they started worrying about, as I say, the Iranian infusion.

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BLITZER: Let me read you exactly what you wrote. You said, "Israel had learned that there's no way to win an occupation. The only issue, (Ehud) Barak told Cheney (in a meeting), was choosing the size of your humiliation."...

HERSH (asked what Barak was saying to Cheney): Change your policy. Understand that you have a problem with the insurgency that you can't wish away.

This is an administration that doesn't want to hear bad news and doesn't absorb bad news. So they just go along hoping it'll change. He was saying you have to do a lot of things to change the policy....


http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0406/20/le.00.html

[Karenina]

1. Hey DMMom!

Sometimes the kids just put us on IGNORE! ;-) :loveya;

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Sometimes they do, indeed!

Loveya, too, K --

[Cheswick2.0]

2. It was a terrific interview

I hope everyone reads this.