Doug Feith Honored at AEI; Michael Vick Goes To Jail

[Purveyor]

Last night Douglas Feith, the Pentagon official who devised the whole system of lying and manipulating the United States into Iraq, was honored with a major speech at the American Enterprise Institute. He was joined by Richard Perle and a host of the other neocon miscreants who joyfully took this country into a war that has, so far, cost us some 3900 young American lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.

Feith, who General Tommy Franks famously called, "the stupidest #%^&#@@ who ever lived" is writing a memoir about how he was right about Iraq all along. He is also, incredibly, a professor at Georgetown University, a school founded and run by the Society of Jesus, one of the most principled orders in Roman Catholicism.

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Full disclosure, I'm a Washingtonian and have known about Feith for some 25 years. Until this administration and this war came along, I had no idea that he had any interests in life other than promoting West Bank settlements. He was (and is) the most outspoken Likudnik in the Washington Jewish community, basically a very fringy character (viciously anti-Rabin, anti-Oslo, anti-peace). I would not have guessed that he could find the United States on a map, so utterly and completely involved is he with the Israeli far right.

But then he turns up at the Pentagon. The rest is history.

And thousands of dead Americans. Meanwhile, Michael Vick is going to jail for 23 months for killing some dogs. At the very least, Feith should be sentenced to spend the holidays with some of those families who are missing a son or daughter thanks to his war.

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http://www.tpmcafe.com:80/blog/coffeehouse/2007/dec/11/feith_honored_at_aei_michael_vicks_goes_to_jail

[Virginia Dare]

1. I agree, Feith should probably be in jail or on trial for treason...

but Vick didn't go to jail for "killing some dogs".

[opihimoimoi]

2. Its beyond SICKENING....its Madness...its Despicable, Its Numbing

The Bush Dudes have a fixation on INEPTNESS and Level One Crap....

[LisaM]

3. They should both be in jail. Don't minimze animal abuse.

People who abuse animals are the most likely to go on to abuse people. Behind almost every person who abuses or kills people is someone who started by hurting animals. What a stupid comparison. Just because Feith and Perle are bad people doesn't mean that Michael Vick isn't a criminal too.

[flashl]

4. Its the selective indignation that speaks volumes

And, Vick is only 1 of an estimated 40,000 people involved in illegal Animal fighting in the U.S alone.

[flashl]

9. Example of selective prosecution

Last Vick cohort gets 2 months

If federal prosecutors had their way, the man who gave them most of the gruesome details about Michael Vick's dogfighting enterprise wouldn't go to prison for killing dogs and helping create "Bad Newz Kennels."

U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson disagreed, saying it wouldn't be right to let Tony Taylor walk after sentencing Vick to 23 months in prison and two other co-defendants to 18 and 21 months.

"You were as much an abuser of animals as any other defendant in this case," Hudson told Taylor on Friday before sentencing him to two months in prison.

Prosecutor Michael Gill had recommended Taylor only serve probation.

Where are the 100's of posts about the outrage?

[classysassy]

5. The imposter

didn't he kill an animal as a evil child?.Now as an evil adult he is killing humans,where is the outrage?,Vick is a saint compared to Bush.?

[MasonJar]

6. Wow! Georgetown U just dropped the height of a skyscraper in my opinion

[MasonJar]

7. I personally do NOT care if animal abusers go on to abuse humans

because abusing animals is a crime of the tallest order. These (especially dogs) are creatures which have been taught to trust humans through the eons. To degrade that trust is the first magnitude of criminal and sick.

[nealmhughes]

8. The AEI has little to do with America or Enterprise, but I do agree that most of the "fellows" there

should be in a (penal or mental) Institution!

Scaife is at his worst with these clowns.