Symour Hersch on Watching Lebanon

The New Yoker has published a new essay by Seymour Hersch on "Watching Lebanon" that reveals how and why the Bush administration was closely involved in planning Israel's counterattacks against Hezbollah. Here's a quote:

The Bush Administration, however, was closely involved in the planning of Israel's retaliatory attacks. President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney were convinced, current and former intelligence and diplomatic officials told me, that a successful Israeli Air Force bombing campaign against Hezbollah's heavily fortified underground-missile and command-and-control complexes in Lebanon could ease Israel's security concerns and also serve as a prelude to a potential American preëmptive attack to destroy Iran's nuclear installations, some of which are also buried deep underground.