Cheney Told Israelis That Obama is "Pro-Palestinian" (Seymour Hersh)

[kpete]

Cheney Told Israelis That Obama is "Pro-Palestinian"
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/3/29/714305/-Cheney-Told-Israelis-That-Obama-is-Pro-Palestinian
Annals of National Security
Syria Calling
The Obama Administration’s chance to engage in a Middle East peace.
by Seymour M. Hersh April 6, 2009

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The Obama transition team also helped persuade Israel to end the bombing of Gaza and to withdraw its ground troops before the Inauguration. According to the former senior intelligence official, who has access to sensitive information, “Cheney began getting messages from the Israelis about pressure from Obama” when he was President-elect. Cheney, who worked closely with the Israeli leadership in the lead-up to the Gaza war, portrayed Obama to the Israelis as a “pro-Palestinian,” who would not support their efforts (and, in private, disparaged Obama, referring to him at one point as someone who would “never make it in the major leagues”). But the Obama team let it be known that it would not object to the planned resupply of “smart bombs” and other high-tech ordnance that was already flowing to Israel. “It was Jones”—retired Marine General James Jones, at the time designated to be the President’s national-security adviser—“who came up with the solution and told Obama, ‘You just can’t tell the Israelis to get out.’ ” (General Jones said that he could not verify this account; Cheney’s office declined to comment.)

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http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/06/090406fa_fact_hersh

[BlooInBloo]

1. Who here doesn't think he also told Israelis that Obama is a muslim.

[billyoc]

4. Me. Neither Cheney or the Israelis are that stupid.

That bullshit is only for domestic consumption. :rofl:

[cliffordu]

13. Well....

:rofl:

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

20. Who's gonna' yell, "Obama is anti-evil (i.e. Dick Cheney)"?

I look forward to the day when that man is connected to the racket called "terrorism",...as he will. I just hope it will be BEFORE the day he dies.

Not that it matters, because evil never knows itself.

[marmar]

2. Cheney is a grave threat to the world's stability.......

n/t

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

3. oh...

dick.

is that opposed to being anti-Palestinian?

[blogslut]

5. Keep em' coming, Seymour

I love that man.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

23. A man that represents himself as "knowing" by "kissing" butts.

Please forgive my horrifying cynicism.

I simply do not belief ANYTHING that 'professionals' put out, anymore.

I find myself seeking out what courageous few insiders leak,...if they are able.

Speaking of which, what happened to Sybil and other whistle-blowers?

[blogslut]

25. Seymour Hersh is hardly a kiss-ass

He has a long track record of being an outsider who doesn't suck up to the powerful.

As for Ms. Edmonds, I do not know the present status of her case.

I understand your frustration but the reality is, empires don't often crumble overnight. Richard Nixon would have gotten away with Watergate if Alexander Butterfield had not let information slip about a taping system during follow-up testimony. Even after that news broke, it took a full year for those tapes to be made public. Despite the Pentagon Papers, despite all the reports by Woodward and Bernstein, despite the highly-watched hearings and testimony from John Dean, despite the fact that the evidence was overwhelming, it wasn't until the American people heard the "Smoking Gun" tape - Nixon finally realized it was over for him.

Even after that, with all the truly horrid things he did, like secretly ordering the bombing of Cambodia, those things are forgotten by the general public. Nixon was pardoned and never served a day in jail.

[marylanddem]

6. Cheney needs to shut the fuck up.

He is a walking disaster.

[Lasher]

7. No no, I want him on the talk shows every Sunday.

The most hated man in America is a perfect example for the GOP. ;-)

[LeftishBrit]

8. Cheney is simply anti-humans

[NightWatcher]

9. per Hersh: we should be under Martial Law, nuking Iran, and gwb would still be king

[goforit]

10. Well Obama proved him wrong. With all the Israeli's in his cabinet there's no way

There is more support now than in Bush's.

[Boojatta]

19. What prevents Israelis from being pro-Palestinian?

Also, how many Israelis are in the Obama Administration?

[LeftishBrit]

27. Israelis in Obama's cabinet?

Like who?

[malaise]

11. But but but

Democrats don't think Cheney should be prosecuted.

[lyonn]

12. Cheney has no class or smarts, bottom line

He has no concept of reality.

[PA Democrat]

14. Cheney needs to be prosecuted for his war crimes.

The pig belongs in prison with the added bonus that he wouldn't have free access to the press and world leaders to try to undermine Obama's policies.

[indepat]

17. Like somewhere where DC would not be able to act like evil incarnate?

:P

[libodem]

15. Quite uncanny how the Gaza incursion

lasted right up to the inauguration of Obama. It is as if they knew that had one last chance for a land grab before change of administration. What Israel did was deplorable and that it with Dick's blessing and encouragement totally unsurprising.

[bluesmail]

16. Cheney's still not giving up on WWlll. eom

[steelmania75]

18. GO BACK TO YOUR UNDISCLOSED LOCATION, DICK!

[rateyes]

21. Cheney,

go to hell.

[spanone]

22. chenee must have a dossier on every washington pol alive and a few dead

[Mike 03]

24. Hanging would be too good for Cheney

He is changing my stance against the death penalty...

[Karenina]

26. OFF WITH HIS HEAD!!!

May we be finally freed from this zombie vampire in our midst?