Doug Feith's Work of Fiction
Tom Ricks and Karen DeYoung of the Washington Post have the scoop on Feith's soon to be released book - having read a copy of the nearly 900-page manuscript - midway through the editing process - that was obtained by The Post.
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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."...
Some blamed deserve the blame, Feith deserves more than most...
The University of Oklahoma
is letting me teach National Security Policy. I guess we couldn't afford Doug!:eek:
Cheers
JohnT
