Seymour Hersh on Obama Being "Dominated" by the Military

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 <b>...</b>
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Seymour Hersh on Obama Being "Dominated" by the Military