Ex-Defense Official Assails Colleagues Over Run-Up to War

[douglas9]

In the first insider account of Pentagon decision-making on Iraq, one of the key architects of the war blasts former secretary of state Colin Powell, the CIA, retired Gen. Tommy R. Franks and former Iraq occupation chief L. Paul Bremer for mishandling the run-up to the invasion and the subsequent occupation of the country.

Douglas J. Feith, in a massive score-settling work, portrays an intelligence community and a State Department that repeatedly undermined plans he developed as undersecretary of defense for policy and conspired to undercut President Bush's policies.

Among the disclosures made by Feith in "War and Decision," scheduled for release next month by HarperCollins, is Bush's declaration, at a Dec. 18, 2002, National Security Council meeting, that "war is inevitable." The statement came weeks before U.N. weapons inspectors reported their initial findings on Iraq and months before Bush delivered an ultimatum to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Feith, who says he took notes at the meeting, registered it as a "momentous comment."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/08/AR2008030802724_pf.html

[TomInTib]

1. "the dumbest fucking guy on the planet" Gen. T. Franks

http://www.nndb.com/people/100/000047956/

[barbtries]

2. douglas feith is crying foul?

what a tool. gawd they are all so despicable. i hope to live to see them all imprisoned where they belong.

[barbtries]

3. read the comments at the links

a lot of information there about the writer of this book. he's a sick, traitorous puppy.

[Solly Mack]

4. Feith? Feith? is blaming others? Spare me...

LMAO

They are all playing the same "it's not my fault" game

[SpiralHawk]

5. Oh jeez, I'd really like to lay out $25 to buy Feith's book, but...

The Miserable Failure of the US economy due to the corruption and incompetence of him and his republicon homelander cronies has caused me to invest my pitiful income on beans and rice...Aw shucks.

At least I have the satisfaction of knowing that my tax dollars are going to fatten the profits of republicon homelander oil & munitions cronies...

[donkeyotay]

6. Lot of carnage and wreckage for "inappropriate"

Feith left the administration in mid-2005 and is now on the Georgetown University faculty. He was the subject of an investigation early last year by the Pentagon's inspector general for his office's secret prewar intelligence assessments outlining strong ties between Iraq and al-Qaeda. His reports, deemed "inconsistent" with those of the intelligence community, were judged "inappropriate" but not illegal.

[spanone]

7. feith should be jailed...instead he's on a book tour...fuck these criminals one and all

[acmavm]

8. By the time these thugs are all done writing their books it will be like a

Marx Brothers comedy (well, maybe not a comedy). They're all blaming everyone else for ths shitstorm they caused. And it just won't work. Because too damn many people know the truth even as the lies were coming out of their faces.

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He blames both the CIA and Powell, who outlined the weapons case in a February 2003 speech at the United Nations, for overemphasizing the threat. But Feith appears to ignore the crucial role that statements from Cheney and Rice, about the imminence of "mushroom clouds" emanating from Iraqi nuclear weapons, played in the case the administration made for war.

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Oh brother!

[leveymg]

9. OSP-OVP stovepipe ran alongside the CIA/WINPAC disinfo shop.

Cherries picked led from CIA/WINPAC into the 2002 Iraq NIE, despite the objections raised by CIA Counter-Proliferation Division (CIA/CPD). This came out during the Libby trial, in Joe Wilson's book, and Valerie Plame's autobio.

Feith's OSP was a parallel pipeline for phony intel that was being fed from Curveball and other Saudi and Israeli-backed Chalabi INA fabricators to Feith's OSP fake intel shop directly into Cheney's OVP. The two converging streams of fraudulent intel were then fed through Tenet and Condi who spoon-fed them to the Idiot-in-Chief, and an equally complacent (and complicit) Congress.

Track Two of this same disinfo operation was a pipeline from the Mossad Chief of Station at the Israeli Embassy in DC through Larry Franklin at OSP, as we learned in the OSP-AIPAC trial.

This network of treason and murder led to the needless deaths of 4000 US service personnel and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed. It was an espionage conspiracy that almost resulted in a mega casualty war with Iran, had the Joint Chiefs and IC mandarins not shut down this most massive and damaging foreign deception campaign.

Treason, Mass Murder and Crimes against Humanity. These are the crimes for which Feith and the others should be put on trial, convicted, and executed.

We should demand nothing less than capital punishment for these state crimes.

[Jack Rabbit]

10. This sounds like more self-serving memoirs

Tell it to the international tribunal, Mr. Feith.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. I just checked Amazon.com ... the tag for "doughy pantload" has not shown up yet ... nt