Ex-Defense Official (Doug Feith) Assails Colleagues Over Run-Up to War

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

By Thomas E. Ricks and Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, March 9, 2008; Page A01



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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."

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Despite its bulk, the book does not address some of the basic facts of the war, such as the widespread skepticism inside the top of the U.S. military about invading Iraq, with some generals arguing that doing so would distract attention from the war against global terrorists. Nor does Feith touch on the assertion of his fellow war architect, then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul D. Wolfowitz, that Iraq would be able to pay for its reconstruction with oil revenue.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/08/AR2008030802724.html?hpid=topnews

[seemslikeadream]

1. What's the matter Dougie??

YOU FUCKIN BASTARD

[johnfunk]

2. Oh, please. Call the WAAAHmbulance!

Feith's tome is another desperate attempt to spin something positive out of the Neoconservatives' folly, failure and fascism. Betcha it starts showing up as a barnes & Noble remainder by May 5...

[Octafish]

3. HarperCollins is Rupert Murdoch's imprimatur...

Doug Feith ran the Office of Special Plans, directly responsible for creating all the phony intel.

So many gangsters, so few neurons...

[peacetalksforall]

6. Yeah, Harper Collins - a once honorable publisher - now a right wing propaganda tool.

[peacetalksforall]

4. So he's finishng a book, when is he due in jail? Scum.

[salin]

5. Look, his nose is growing!

[UTUSN]

7. Yaas, he didn't get ALL of AS MUCH MORE of what he wanted!1 Awwww!1

From the subject title it looked as if he was doing an apology or some other such useless thing. Silly me!1

[HCE SuiGeneris]

8. The Consummate Idiot writes a book. Oh, yay.

Keep a copy in your outhouse...

[Octafish]

9. 'The fucking stupidest guy on the face of the planet.' -- Gen. Tommy Franks on Doug Feith

Doug's must be an amazing mind, for those studying criminology.