Sy Hersh's New Yorker Article: A Glowing Endorsement of Bush

We were going to blog this yesterday, but Byron York and Kausfiles beat us to making the point.

We caught Sy Hersh on Hardball earlier in the week. We were all set for a damning indictment of the Bush Administration.

It actually wasn't.

It could be that Sy Hersh intended his report to be a damning indictment. But we were actually thrilled to hear most of what he said.

We had been worried since 9-11 that, despite Bush's claims that this was "a different kind of war," it was actually being fought by the old rules. The old Marquis de Queensbury rulebook.

Sy Hersh increased our support of Bush greatly by informing us the old rulebook had been shredded, burned, pissed on, and buried beneath a brightly-colored garden gnome in Schenectady, NY.

A must-read piece by Byron York newsjacks Sy Hersh's "damning indictment" and interprets it far differently than it was likely intended:

As Hersh tells the story, the secretary of defense was “apoplectic� after U.S. forces blew a chance to kill Afghanistan’s Mullah Omar because a military lawyer wouldn’t approve the strike.

Although Hersh writes that some of the program’s methods were “troubling,� still many people might say of the program: Thank you, thank you, thank you.

It's a gotta-read.

As a special bonus, it contains the most potty-mouth we've ever seen in a The Hill article.

posted by Ace at 01:55 PM

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