Bradblog: Douglas Feith - "There Were No Analysts Who Said Saddam Was Not A Threat"

[Hissyspit]

I ranted about the delusional self-justifications of Richard Perle. DUer Brad is pissed at the prevaricating comments of another neo-con (Thanks for listening to the NPR "Morning Edition" report and passing on the info, Brad. I deliberately didn't listen because I'm concerned about my blood pressure. Anyway, why the hell Feith is being allowed to teach at Georgetown University when he says crap like this is beyond my reasoning skills. He should making license plates. The interview is here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9678499 Here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7496726 you can listen to some responses from NPR listeners to a previous interview.

I encourage DUers to email NPR's "Morning Edtion" to correct the misinformation of Mr. Feith: http://www.npr.org/contact - H'spit

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4436

BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 4/19/2007 11:42PM
Douglas Feith: There Were No Analysts Who Said Saddam Was Not a Threat

Has the Former DoD War Architect Ever Met Condi Rice or Colin Powell?
Just Asking...

NPR's Morning Edition reported yesterday that Douglas Feith, the Bush Administration's former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, has a new job since leaving the Pentagon. Apparently he's busy rewriting history as a professor at Georgetown University.

In apparent and extreme denial, one of the main Neocon architects for Bush's failed war had the following extraordinary exchange with host Steve Inskeep (who, unfortunately, didn't correct the record, so we guess we'll have to) concerning the rationale for going to War in Iraq. Feith turned downright indignant when Inskeep suggested that there were analysts who didn't see Saddam Hussein as a threat before the war...

NPR: Feith insists that many accounts misstate the reasons the U.S. chose war against Saddam Hussein.

DOUGLAS FEITH: He had demonstrated that he was interested in WMD and the danger was that he could take action in the future that would get him in a major fight with us. At which point he might use the WMD capabilities and connections to terrorists to hurt us.

NPR: Is there any point in that that you ended up assuming too much?

FEITH: I think that...I think that was a reasonable assumption under the circumstances...

NPR: Still...

FEITH: ...Do you not?

NPR: It sounds reasonable the way that you put it.

FEITH: Well that's what we were worried about (laughs)...I don't think that there's anything unreasonable in in...

NPR: ...But of course there were analysts making an entirely different...

FEITH: No, there weren't. No, there weren't....I mean that's just false. I, I, I hope you can do something to clarify this point. I mean, this notion that there were analysts who were saying that Saddam Hussein was not a threat?! There was nobody saying that.

"Nobody saying that"?! Really? Here's just two of them for a start. Names that Mr. Feith might be familiar with:

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What planet do these Bush dead-enders live on, anyway?! Amazing.

[NewJeffCT]

1. I'm surprised Georgetown lowered their standards that much

and, aren't they supposed to be the liberal Catholic university?

[acmavm]

3. A Catholic prayer group had bush** speak at their prayer

breakfast just the other day. I don't know what they were praying for, but it can't be anything that Jesus would approve of.

And I'm a non-practicing Catholic so I'm not picking on them. It's just that the hypocrisy is astounding.

[NewJeffCT]

4. There is a difference, however

at having a person speak at a prayer breakfast (a one time event) than employing them as a professor.

[acmavm]

5. Yeah, the difference is how many times they show up.

Whatever.

[Demeter]

2. That's Funny; I Recall a LOT of Experts Said Iraq Wasn't a Threat

And on much more credible evidence than that handed out by the pro-overthrow people.

[The Stranger]

6. Why hasn't Feith been arrested and tried yet as a war criminal?

[Blackhatjack]

7. I have said many times and it is so true today...

...there are many patriots all around us posting at DU. (Whistleblowers, and individuals just doing their jobs but in the face of tremendous corrupt pressure to shirk their responsibility and support this corrupt Administration and its evil aims).

AND there are many criminals connected with this Administration walking among us who should be in prison right now.

(Perle, Feith, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Bolton, just to name a few).