[lbo-talk] Fact-checking Anonymous Sources?

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C.Os of all the units of the 6 kids I know in the service (marines, army, 
air force) are all being sent home for r&r in june/july and they are 
supposedly sending 'em to the middle east in August for the 
bombing/invasion. they're calling it an invasion.

As I said, this was passed on down the line from officials. One C.O. says 
he expects WWIII by 2010.

Oh, great, sonshine's asking R if he should join now or wait to be 
recruited during a draft. Go Canada young man! Canada.

I dunno. I don't want to believe these jackasses would start another war, 
but really, this is effed up.

At 03:49 PM 4/12/2006, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Chuck Grimes wrote:
>
>>If I wanted to impart motives on Hersh, I could argue that he wrote
>>an alarmist article to generate outrage, and therefore try to
>>influence public opinion against such an action.
>
>Yes. Hersh is a cranky difficult guy - so I hear, I've never met him - but 
>his politics are definitely on the left, and he's very good at what he 
>does. While I understand the temptations of using someone's leak who may 
>not share your politics, I don't think there's any doubt that he'd like to 
>stop the maniacs in charge from nuking Iran, and I don't get what Yoshie's 
>driving at.
>
>Doug
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