Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist says Iraq is a massive failure

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Seymour M. Hersh criticized the Bush administration's operations in Iraq as a "massive failure" during a lecture at the Fletcher School yesterday. He is the winner of a Pulitzer-Prize and regular contributor to The New Yorker.

The biggest problem, according to Hersh, is that "there are no weapons of mass destruction ." Hersh found it "unnerving" that US authorities sincerely believed in the existence of WMD in Iraq.

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Hersh predicted "real trouble" for the President in the 2004 elections. "You have a war fought by the underclass, financed by the underclass and for the profit of the upperclass," He said. "I think Bush's going to lose , unless he makes some radical change, which he's not going to do."

The operation in Iraq has put pressure on the President, Hersh said. "Bush's got money troubles, troop troubles; he's going to have to hold it. I just don't see any way out."