Seymour Hersh: Bush a 'revolutionary with a bedtime'

MJ: A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist expressed his views on the Bush administration, the war in Iraq and the prison abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib during a talk in Marquette Tuesday evening.

Seymour Hersh, 69, currently a contributor to The New Yorker magazine, won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for exposing the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War and was one of the first reporters to cover the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq.

"I don't think George Bush is a liar. I think he believed there were weapons of mass destruction," Hersh said about one of the president's main justifications in going to war in Iraq. "But more importantly I think he really believes ... it's his mission to bring democracy to the Middle East."

During his presentation at Northern Michigan University, Hersh said Bush was a revolutionary.

"But I would argue there's nothing as dangerous as a revolutionary with no information and no capacity to learn and no capacity to change. I call him a revolutionary with a bedtime," he said. Read more


db: Anybody who, like us, pissed themselves laughing at this could not possibly dispute Hersh's view of Bush and his 'incapacity to learn'. But it's not really funny is it? More incredibly disturbing.