U.S. intelligence officer Patrick Lang recounts Doug Feith’s Arabic problem.

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“He was sitting there munching a sandwich while he was talking to me,” Lang recalled, “which I thought was remarkable in itself, but he also had these briefing papers — they always had briefing papers, you know — about me.

“He’s looking at this stuff, and he says, ‘I’ve heard of you. I heard of you.’

“He says, ‘Is it really true that you really know the Arabs this well, and that you speak Arabic this well? Is that really true? Is that really true?’

“And I said, ‘Yeah, that’s really true.’

“That’s too bad,” Feith said.

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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/26/doug-feiths-arabic-problem/
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What was it Tommy Franks called little Dougie?

Oh yeah :“The f**king stupidest guy on the face of the earth.”

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1. I know this has been reported, who hired this idiot

for his position in DoD?

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2. I'd guess it was Wolfowitz with clearance from Rumsfeld

Secret Proposals: Fighting Terror by Attacking ... South America?

By Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff
Newsweek

Aug. 9 issue - Days after 9/11, a senior Pentagon official lamented the lack of good targets in Afghanistan and proposed instead U.S. military attacks in South America or Southeast Asia as "a surprise to the terrorists," according to a footnote in the recent 9/11 Commission Report. The unsigned top-secret memo, which the panel's report said appears to have been written by Defense Under Secretary Douglas Feith, is one of several Pentagon documents uncovered by the commission which advance unorthodox ideas for the war on terror. The memo suggested "hitting targets outside the Middle East in the initial offensive" or a "non-Al Qaeda target like Iraq," the panel's report states. U.S. attacks in Latin America and Southeast Asia were portrayed as a way to catch the terrorists off guard when they were expecting an assault on Afghanistan.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5570015/site/newsweek/