The Legacy Of Doug Feith

• Created the Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group, which was investigated by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence as to whether it "exaggerated the threat posed by Iraq to justify the war."


• Attempted to link Iraq with Al Qaeda.


• Called for Regime Change in Iraq five years before the 9/11 attack.


• Allegedly leaked classified information to The Weekly Standard.


• Urged Bush administration to abandon the Geneva Conventions.

And that’s just the beginning, read more here.

The Stupidest Fucking Guy On The Planet

From 60 Minutes: Doug Feith once again earns his nickname By SilentPatriot:

It’s quite remarkable that Donald Rumsfeld of all people — in a memo Feith calls “the Parade of Horribles” — predicted exactly what the “downsides” to war would be. Even more remarkable is that it seems he took every step necessary to fulfill his own doomsday prophesies. Literally every single one of these has come to fruition.

Kroft summarizes some of them:

* the possibility that the U.S. could become so absorbed with its Iraq effort that it would pay inadequate attention to other serious problems;

* that war could cause more harm and entail greater costs than expected;

* that it would not go on for two to four years, but eight to 10 years;

* that terrorist networks could improve their recruiting and fundraising as a result of the U.S. being depicted as anti-Muslim;

* that Iraq could experience ethnic strife among Kurds, Sunnis and Shia;

* the war could damage America’s relationship with allies and its reputation in the world community.

Feith’s response?:

“We certainly understood that these are the things that might happen. That’s why we wrote them down.

Well, at least you wrote them down.