Doug Feith releases memoir blaming everyone else for the Iraq War - "War & Decision"

[housewolf]

The WP reports on Doug Feith's new memoir:

In the first insider account of Pentagon decision-making on Iraq, one of the key architects of the war blasts former secretary of state Colin Powell, the CIA, retired Gen. Tommy R. Franks and former Iraq occupation chief L. Paul Bremer for mishandling the run-up to the invasion and the subsequent occupation of the country.

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."

Although he acknowledges "serious errors" in intelligence, policy and operational plans surrounding the invasion, Feith blames them on others outside the Pentagon and notes that "even the best planning" cannot avoid all problems in wartime. While he says the decision to invade was correct, he judges that the task of creating a viable and stable Iraqi government was poorly executed and remains "grimly incomplete."

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

[ck4829]

1. Feith: Everybody is responsible for this mess except for me

Nice.

[annabanana]

2. "I didn't do it!"

[Swamp Rat]

3. Douglas J. Feith should be tried for war crimes and the deaths of our own military personnel.

He is personally responsible for the mess we're in.

[Warpy]

4. "LOOK AT THEM! Don't look at that AIPAC spy in my office

who was telling me what to do!!"

Well, at least the stupidest man on the planet knows it all became a total clusterfuck.

Maybe Stupid's rating will go below 19%, yet.

[BrotherBuzz]

5. So he ran OSP cherry-picking intelligence to suit their needs, yet ...

tries to tell us someone else was to blame.

"Seldom in my life, have I met a dumber man." - Lawrence Wilkerson

[XOKCowboy]

6. What a slimy little worm - He should be forced to serve in Iraq

He and his PNAC buddies got us into this mess. He's the ultimate chickenhawk. He's beneath contempt.

[UTUSN]

7. Blaming NOT for the war, but for not giving him everything he wanted!1 n/t

[priller]

8. HarperCollins publishing this dreck

I figured it would be another Regnery classic.

[housewolf]

9. Yeah, that's what I thought too n/t

[KG]

10. i'm sure we'll more books like this after bushco hits the streets next year.

[housewolf]

12. Yeah... can't wait!

If the real story of this adminstration ever comes out...

History is gonna have a field day with this administration.

[spanone]

11. they'll all be covering their asses....