Others have criticized Feith's plan as relying too heavily on Iraqi exile politicians, including Ahmed Chalabi. Feith says that he considered Chalabi one of the most astute and democratically minded Iraqis but that he had no special brief for him. Instead, he charges that the State Department, the CIA and the military's Central Command were pathologically opposed to the exiles and to Chalabi in particular.
And if you wanted Feith to say, "Yes I am an egocentric idiot," his comments on Chalabi serve quite well.

Stalinist solutions for incompetence are sometimes very appealing...