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As John noted the other day, Douglas Feith is one of the most deceitful war architects, a difficult distinction to attain considering the company. On “60 Minutes” this Sunday, Feith was confronted by Steve Kroft with all the “miscalculations” he made as one of the primary enablers of the administration’s disastrous march to war.
** For those of you who may have forgotten, General Tommy Franks is on record calling Feith “the stupidest f*cking guy on the planet.” **
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It’s quite remarkable that Donald Rumsfeld of all people — in a memo Feith calls “the Parade of Horribles” — predicted exactly what the “downsides” to war would be. Even more remarkable is that it seems he took every step necessary to fulfill his own doomsday prophesies. Literally every single one of these has come to fruition.
Kroft summarizes some of them:
* the possibility that the U.S. could become so absorbed with its Iraq effort that it would pay inadequate attention to other serious problems;
* that war could cause more harm and entail greater costs than expected;
* that it would not go on for two to four years, but eight to 10 years;
* that terrorist networks could improve their recruiting and fundraising as a result of the U.S. being depicted as anti-Muslim;
* that Iraq could experience ethnic strife among Kurds, Sunnis and Shia;
* the war could damage America’s relationship with allies and its reputation in the world community.
Feith’s response?:
“We certainly understood that these are the things that might happen. That’s why we wrote them down.
Well, at least you wrote them down.
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Feith!
** For those of you who may have forgotten, General Tommy Franks is on record calling Feith “the stupidest f*cking guy on the planet.” **
Did Tommy Franks forget about Bush?
I watched last night as Steve Kroft handed Feith’s ass to him. It was fun to watch as Feith stammered and fell all over himself trying to evade the questions.
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Hitler had similar rational to invading Poland, France, etc…
“They might strike us first.”
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How is it these neocons can get by with killing countless innocent people, breaking our military, busting our budget and running our nation into the ground? Why is Feith is teaching at Georgetown instead of sitting in a prison cell?
Was I the only one expecting Feith’s response to be “So?”
“** For those of you who may have forgotten, General Tommy Franks is on record calling Feith “the stupidest f*cking guy on the planet.” **”
Priceless. No additions necessary. It said it all LOL!
I laughed my ass off when he said it. Did the Chimperor concur with the opinion of his military leader on the ground?
WhenIsItEnough @ 6:
Indeed, his comment was effectively, “So”
“We certainly understood that these are the things that might happen. That’s why we wrote them down.”
That line could have been plucked right out of a first draft for Doctor Strangelove.
Vonnegut also springs to mind.
yeesh…
pedophiles, rapists, war profiteers and war criminals never learn: you are not going to rehab or salvage your reputation by going on 60mins, generally your raping, pedophiling and/or war criminal ways are laid bare for all to see.
feith, again, has proven that he is the stupidest fucking guy on the planet.
Man, I wish I saw this instead of going to sleep. I love watching chickenhawks get barbequed.
Feith’s theory for attacking Saddam: Six Degrees of Separation.
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=603
And @ 11:
If you have an iPod you can podcast it for FREE! I started listening to it this morning and had to stop, but I’ll finish listening to it this afternoon.
We understand that we could have avoided shitastrophy but it was brainstorming time and everybody had their thinking caps on.
I watch amoral psychopaths like Doug Feith and I really am in complete amazement over the level of cognitive dissonance, lack of common sense and “removed from reality” behavior of people like him.
This man has the President’s ear? My gawwd…he should be under heavy medication and kept away from stairs and sharp objects.
Samson- @ 10:
And yet, those 28%ers (those that would actually watch that liberal show) would still ignore the truth and keep supporting their authority figure.
Willfully ignorant.
Liberal AND Proud @ 7:
pinkobait @ 9:
Yeah, you’re right about the Strangelove resemblance.
There are so many priceless quotes out there (e.g. Rove’s “I don’t work for you, I work for the American people” quote)
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QUESTION:
If America went to war to end the illegal wars of aggression against the same rational, “They might attack first,” then why is Feith still free to walk the streets of America.
We didn’t know the atrocities of WWII until it’s end was drawing closed and then successfully prosecuted a GOVERNMENT that used such similar hubris to invade and occupy other European Nations. How is America behaving as the moral victor in the 21st Century in the Middle East when the American Government uses the same rational and tactics the Nazi party did?
Is there a way to email this asshole? I so wish I could meet him in a restaurant, just to dump a cocktail in his suit coat pocket.
Kroft describes this as the ‘CYA’ memo.
CYA as in ‘Cover Your Ass’.
They knew all of this long before.
Here is Dick Cheney in 1994 telling why they didn’t go to Baghdad in ‘91.
He says it would have been a quagmire and quite clearly understood the implications, the same ones that have come to fruition today.
He also asks the rhetorical question:
‘How many additional dead Americans was Saddam worth, our judgement was not very many and I think we got it right.’
My question is when did they develop amnesia.
My answer is when George Bush
wonstole the election in 2000.Does Feith think this interview will somehow absolve him? Watching Bush’s flunkies makes me realize how stupid we were to elect Bush in the first place. I feel like Alice in Wonderland. It seems surreal doesn’t it?
Hannah Hussein @ 20:
They didn’t develop amnesia. They settled on a number of dead Americans worthy of Saddam’s downfall.
Ash”Hussy”Williams @ 17:
Actually something you wrote caught my attention as well.
“shitastrophy” :)
Are you a Trailer Park Boys fan per chance?
This guy is a criminal, deserving of hard labor for life for his crimes. Instead, he will probably land a plum “job” with some conservative “think-tank” and earn millions a year for enriching his masters.
He looks like some old mans ass wearing glasses , oh it is .
Oh. My. God. This dude is out of his freakin Easter basket.
Hannah Hussein @ 20:
Almost makes you wonder if they were idiotic enough to play Peek-a-boo with Saddam.
Plan it behind closed doors for years, and then rack up international pressure for some BS reason. Then all of a sudden… PEEKABOO! we bomb the shit out of their country and invade in hopes that we’ll have caught them so off guard that there’d be no resistance whatsoever.
Wow, just look at all those books surrounding Mr. Feith in his office. Surely he must be deeply serious and scholarly!
Max-Hussein-1 @ 18:
this is a metaphysical impossibility, as america, in going “to war to end the illegal wars of aggression”, would have to attack itself.
This warcriminal is so full of it
Feith: “One of the things that is reflected in this memo is Secretary Rumsfelds deeply held view its foolish to try to predict the future.”
And still Rumsfeld scoffed at experts saying the war could be much more costly, require hundreds of thousands of troops for postwar occupation etc etc. And when the insurgency began Rumsfeld still didnt have a clue what was happening. “Dont believe the media!” “Stuff happens!” “People are free!” “They are just deadenders!”
But hey as long as you wrote all that stuff down on a piece of paper..
*Yawn* What we need to know is what has Obama’s former minister been up to?
Another enabler/war criminal who will never see the inside of a courtroom. Americans should be very proud.
Ruthless People @ 2:
No. Feith is the stupidest fucking guy on the planet - Bush is the stupidest fucking guy in the galaxy.
Amazing that every one of the “downsides” has happened, almost like they WANTED them to happen so we could have an endless war, create a military government, and take away all freedoms and civil liberties. BRILLIANT!!
more at my blog…
feith is a frailing piece of shit and we would be better off if
was removed from the surface of the planet like charles dickens
implies in one of his books.
this guy is worst than the stupidest person in the world. he
has caused undue harm to America and to the human race.
we should superglue his lips to cheney’s asshole since he
feeds there continually.
How is it these guys feel free to do and say what they want. Don’t they feel any shame for the choas and death they have caused? These neo-cons have no sympathy. Why aren’t we, the American people, demanding the resignation of Bush and his enablers? The Congress is spineless.
pinkobait @ 23:
Haha, no just popped into the noggin.
But I just Wiki’ed and it looks hilarious. Thanks for the heads up!
joeyess @ 19:
http://contact.georgetown.edu/.....etID=djf35
P.D. @ 21:
No. He has a new book he’s trying to sell. Just like Tenet before him. He thinks this will sell books. Of course, he’s too stupid to read the market very well. Tenet sold his books by describing how he secretly thought everyone else was nuts. Either Feith doesn’t get that, or he just doesn’t have the capacity to be anything other than a sycophantic flat-earther.
His eyes are so close together that he looks like a penis.
Oh Jesus H. Christ:
“We were lead to believe One of the reasons for going to war was an eminent attack against us with WMD’s was about to happen.”
“I don’t think anybody in the government said that.” WTF, WTF, really? Really??? Does any….ANYBODY believe that other than you?
Dr. Hussien Matt @ 31:
Busy Damning America and warning us of all these chickens coming home to roost.
I fear the Pastor is far more correct than people give him credit for.
Just witness the recent growth of anti-American extremism in Iraq.
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it looks like feith is about to crack during the entire interview…..
what a dick. this guy needs to be in jail….
History will not look kindly upon us. Repeating history is a sign of inferiority, not superiority.
Old Billy Hussein @ 38:
how stupid we were to elect Bush in the first place
Speak for yourself, I never voted for any of these bastards.
The banality of evil. This weeny of a man has no soul.
I watched this and got so made I threw something at the TV. BTW, Gore and Kerry were elected - Bushed cheated and lied to get his job.
This Feith character, is a traitor. And should be treated accordingly.
Good reporting by CBS…
We also remember Bush in a recess appointment replaced Feith in the No. 3 position in the Pentagon with Eric S. Edelman
–> Bypassing U.S. Senate,” , August 9, 2005.
Edelman was Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey from July 2003 to June 2005.
From February 2001 to June 2003, he was Principal Deputy Assistant to Cheney for National Security Affairs
Just why would Bush bypass the Senate with a recess appointment?
Maybe CBS can followup on this January 27, 2008 story… that was not reported in the US MSM….
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t.....257725.ece
http://thestressblog.com/2006/.....d-the-mic/
sofla @ 24:
He’s at Georgetown as a visiting professor. Busy raising the next generation of conservative idiots.
Max-Hussein-1 @ 37:
Or, more directly: