Feith Blames Public For Feeling Misled About Iraq: ‘I Think They Misremember A Lot’

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/13/feith-misremember/

Feith Blames Public For Feeling Misled About Iraq: ‘I Think They Misremember A Lot’

Last night, Iraq war architect Douglas Feith appeared on The Daily Show to discuss his war apologia, War and Decision. When Stewart said that many Americans feel the Bush administration misled them into war, Feith replied, “Errors are not lies. I think a lot of what the Administration said was correct.”

Feith insisted that the entire administration conducted a “serious consideration of the very great risks of war.” When Stewart reminded Feith that those risks were never presented to the public, Feith said he was wrong, and that people who felt that way simply “misremembered” the run-up to war:

STEWART: If you knew the perils, but the conversation that you had with the public painted a rosier picture, how is that not deception? The fact that you seemed to know all the risks takes this from manslaughter to homicide. <…>

FEITH: When people read this book, I think people will be surprised to be reminded of what was actually said. I think a lot of people’s perceptions of what was said are filtered through the recent history. … I think they misremember a lot.

Watch it at link~

It’s Feith’s memory, not Americans’, that is faulty here. In January, a Center for Public Integrity study documented the more than 930 false statements made by the Bush Administration in the lead-up to the Iraq war. Feith has shut his eyes to the evidence for months, laughably claiming that the administration never said the war would be easy, even though the White House frequently — and famously — peddled just that notion.

As the Wonk Room’s Matt Duss puts it, “Doug Feith is only small part of a bigger story, an ideologically hidebound bureaucrat condemned to spend the rest of his life frantically and fruitlessly arguing against history’s overwhelmingly clear verdict on his incompetence and mendacity.”

[unhappycamper]

1. Yea, mendacity fits Feith well. n/t

[Warpy]

2. I hope this hideous man gets as much coverage as possible

and that right wing yappers allow him all the time in the world to blame everybody but himself for what he did to this country.

He's one of the best friends we have out there, exceeded only by the tame economy reporters who tell us all how well we're doing in the current economy.

[damntexdem]

3. One of the Bushista's tactics was to get the public to misunderstand ...

in the ways the Administration needed them to misunderstand -- sometimes through direct lies, but sometimes through misdirection.

If the public misremembers, it's largely because Feith and company induced them to misunderstand.

And by the end of the interview, Feith sat there with a silly look on his face.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. I said this on another thread about this war criminal. He is a neocon and part

of their philosophy is to lie to the people. Plain and simple.

[bdamomma]

5. they never accept fault do they.

now they are pointing the finger at us, how much disrespect and total ignorance can they show us, it infuriates me.:mad:

[90-percent]

6. Don't

Don't send your kid to any college that would take Douglas Feith as a faculty member.

Unless your kid wants to get a doctorate in mendacity!

Looking forward to catching this on re-run tonight opposite Keith. DVR's rock!


-90% Jimmy

[DinahMoeHum]

7. Piss off, Douglas Feith. Gen. Tommy Franks was right about you.

"...fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth..."

:evilfrown:

[yorgatron]

8. Feith should be hung for treason.

war criminal=hanged by the neck until dead.
we didn't go after the Watergate or Iran-Contra shitbags anywhere near as hard as we should have,and now we pay the price.
:grr::mad:

[sandnsea]

9. 3 words, Downing Street Memo

Disproves everything he said on that show.

[KG]

10. just another psychopathic lair.

[sakabatou]

11. Time to pull the clue-by-four out...

[90-percent]

12. Watched and DVR'ed it last night

I love Keith, but MSNBC primary coverage, even with Keith participating, is not that enjoyable.

Feith is just like Hermann Goering, but without a 3 digit IQ!

This man, and those of his ilk, should be spending the rest of their natural lives in a maximum security federal prison! Making fifty cents an hour hand building prosthetics for all the best and brightest they sent off to die for their lies for!

-90% Jimmy