Sy Hersh's chilling comments on Bush, Iran, and Iraq

one of the country's premier investigative journalists, for whom i have a great deal of respect, tells us what we should already know, but is nonetheless horrifying for that...

• "The fact of the matter is we have a government that will do what it wants to do for the next two years," he said. "The worst is yet to come. It's sort of like we're essentially powerless [and] just play it out."

• He said that Bush and top aides have largely ignored the military intelligence presented to them on Iran's nuclear program.

• "It may come down to the president making an order that the military will object to," Hersh said. "It would be devastating, but it may come down to it. My fear is that he will do what he wants."

• "He's a total radical, probably the most radical president we've ever had in terms of his definition of the power of the presidency," he said. "There's nothing more dangerous than a radical who doesn't have information, doesn't learn from information and doesn't learn from the past."

• Hersh said that not even negative press coverage has slowed the administration. "They couldn't care less about what we write. They're immune, inured to what The New York Times can write, what The New Yorker can write," he said.

• "You will not believe what's going to be happening in the next few years with returning vets," Hersh said.

the key point for me is that bushco "will do what it wants to do for the next two years..." THAT is precisely what must NOT be allowed to happen...

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