Seymour Hersh Meets Thank God Our Leaders Are Completely Different From Saddam Hussein

Here's an interesting online appearance by Seymour Hersh. one thing i learned from it is seymour hersh does not type uppercase letters.

Also interesting:

the answer may come from our military, but they are extremely reluctant to tell the white house the truth. that must change... i'm worried about the inability to the men running the u.s. govt. to accept information that challenges their assumptions and their belief. it's very frightening and the fact is that our senior military are very reluctant to give bush and cheney and rumsfeld any bad news.

And then we have this LA Times story, in which four US soldier describe the looting of Al Qa Qaa:

[The soldiers] who spoke to The Times asked not to be named, saying they feared retaliation from the Pentagon.

Well, that's bad -- but thank god our leaders are completely different from Saddam Hussein:

Lying to superiors was driven by fear of the Regime... Lack of structural checks and balances allowed false information to affect Iraqi decision making with disastrous effects...

[Presidential Secretary] 'Abd said key Regime members "habitually" concealed from Saddam unpleasant realities of Iraq's industrial and military capabilities. Fear of loss of position motivated this deception, which continued until the final days of the Regime.

-- page 11 of the "Regime Strategic Intent" section of the final Iraq Survey Group report