BernieHund: The Political Watchdog

Let us hope that Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker is wrong, although records show that he has been right too many times for us to discount his latest assertion.

Hersh told CNN’s “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer” that Congress has authorized up to $400 million to fund the secret campaign, which involves U.S. special operations troops and Iranian dissidents.

President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have rejected findings from U.S. intelligence agencies that Iran has halted a clandestine effort to build a nuclear bomb and “do not want to leave Iran in place with a nuclear program,” Hersh said.

“They believe that their mission is to make sure that before they get out of office next year, either Iran is attacked or it stops its weapons program,” Hersh said.

Of course, Ryan Crocker, the stuttering and stammering ambassador to Iraq denied the allegations.  What else could he do? 

“I can tell you flatly that U.S. forces are not operating across the Iraqi border into Iran, in the south or anywhere else.”

The White House declined to comment.  Perhaps, they don’t want to be caught in yet another lie to the American people, so in this case it may be better to remain silent.

Paul Gimigliano, spokesman for the CIA said:

“The CIA, as a rule, does not comment on allegations regarding covert operations.”

We don’t have sufficient military to conduct the two wars in which we are engaged.  To be sure Dick and the Decider cannot be considering yet another conflict for their interest.

I am reminded of an event that occurred a long time ago.  An out of control truck drove down my driveway and ran into the garage, tearing down the garage door and breaking the line of windows about three quarters of the way from the bottom.  All the window panes were broken but one.  My mother walked outside to assess the damage, picked up a hammer and smashed the single pane that had not been broken.  She put the hammer back on the shelf and walked inside the house, saying, “Now that takes care of that.  They are all broken.”  Of course, my mother had senile dementia.