Do you fucking believe these people? With the US mired in the Iraqi quagmire, Feith says My work here is done. What about the war in Iraq that was a Feith-based initiative.
"Our intelligence community made, apparently, an error,
as to the stockpiles" of weapons it assured President Bush existed in
2003, Feith said. Thus that part of the administration's argument for
why war was necessary was overdone, he said, adding, "Anything we said
at all about stockpiles was overemphasis, given that we didn't find
them."
Our intelligence community made, apparently, an error. Yep, it was all the CIA's fault! Damn their lies!
This really takes some balls considering that it comes from the guy who was ultimately in charge of the Office of Special Plans,
the Pentagon outfit charged with ferreting out evidence of WMD and
al-Qaeda connections in Iraq that the squishy analysts at the CIA were
too reality based to acknowledge. The OSP was practically created to find WMD whether it was there or not. If the CIA did screw up, Feith's shop made them look like pikers.
Yeah, here's the quote from Feith's statement that got me
really howling. "Since it turned out we were caught in this lie, I wish
we'd not made such a big deal of it in the first place." And as you
say, not that they had much choice.
"Had Saddam Hussein not been a supporter of terrorism and a guy who
developed and used WMD, I don't think that simply saying he's a tyrant
and we have a chance to replace a tyrant would have motivated the war,"
he said.
NO SHIT, SHERLOCK. Right, Dougie, that's the whole goddamned point, we would not have
been bamboozled into this insane immoral and illegal war if you'd told
the truth.
Check out this devastating quote from Krugman's latest:
"But Mr. Rove understood that the facts were irrelevant. For one
thing, he knew he could count on the administration's supporters to
obediently accept a changing story line. Read the before-and-after
columns by pro-administration pundits about Iraq: Before the war they
castigated the C.I.A. for understating the threat posed by Saddam's
W.M.D.; after the war they castigated the C.I.A. for exaggerating the
very same threat."
Ballsy indeed. Of course, Once Mr. Feith returns to the private sector, he'll need to update his
resume. I suggest that for the years 2001-2005, he can use General
Frank's endorsement. Feith is the guy that Gen. Tommy Franks memorably called "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth."
Perhaps that's the perfect combination for this administration: ballsy and stupid.
Do you fucking believe 
