But after four years of war, Iraq has been left wide open for al-Qaeda jihadists to enter. The Sunnis/Baathists and the Shiites are fighting for positions of future control, knowing American troops will eventually leave. One could also assume the only reason the Sunnis/Baathists would fight side by side with the al-Qaeda jihadists (with the US taking the Shiites side), is if their country was in total ruin and they had no other choice.

Did Feith’s theory require as absolute colapse of Iraq’s society to work? Is this why the Americans went into Iraq with so few troops to stabilized it? Or maybe they had enough troops, but never planned on protecting the warehouses full of explosives (which they didn’t).
Did Feith want to create chaos in Iraq, so that it would be a magnet for militants? Thus making Iraq a breeding ground for terrorist, knowing the surrounding countries would somehow get involved and in effect put the US at odds with every country in middle east? Except Israel.

I believe our goverment in past years has lead too many investigations into subjects that don’t matter.
Yet, I believe an investigation into Wolfowitz & Co. would be money well spent.

Comment by Marie #47

Marie,

I hope that helps…

It’s a shame there is not some way to execute him 3,133 (and counting) times….preferably with shrapnel.
And make his family – and all his future family members work like slaves to pay the trillion dollars this war will cost.

And then of course there is Iraq – will Iraq and it’s people ever see even a token of justice?
Or is it just easier to let the depleted uranium finish it’s job and kill them all, before anyone even thinks of having to apologize?

From Feith’s OWN letter to the editor printed in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times: “…my Pentagon office never said there was an operational relationship between Iraq and Al-Qaeda.”

This guy needs to be jailed.

How about another time Feith earned his US Taxpayer salary, working hard for the interests of the USA:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0520-02.htm

Pentagon’s Feith Again at Center of Disaster
by Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON – Although it will take weeks, if not months, to sort out precisely who was responsible for what increasingly appears to have been the systemic abuse by U.S. soldiers of Iraqi detainees, it should be no surprise if Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith is found to have played an important role.
Feith, who, according to Bob Woodward’s new book, ‘Plan of Attack’, was described by the military commander who led last year’s invasion, Gen Tommie Franks, as ”the f—ing stupidest guy on the face of the earth”, has been at the center of virtually everything else that has gone wrong in Iraq, so there is no reason to think he was very far from this one….”
Similarly, it was Feith’s office, along with the Defense Policy Group (DPG) whose members Feith appointed, that served as the point of entry and influence for Iraqi National Congress (INC) chief Ahmed Chalabi and his ”defectors” who provided phony intelligence about Hussein’s vast stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

Oh yeah – right – Feith liked Chalabi too. Wasn’t Chalabi that other guy that got caught spying on the US, while on the US payroll? What do they call that….uhhhh….Treason?

“…..Evidence of Feith’s involvement in the prisoner abuse scandal rests primarily on reports that have appeared in ‘Newsweek’, the ‘New York Times’, and the ‘Los Angeles Times’…..”

Oh yeah – another great job Feith – that Prisoner Abuse Scandal sure showed the world what we’re all about!

“…Like his mentor, former Defense Policy Board Chairman Richard Perle, Feith has long been a hardliner on foreign policy, arms control issues and Israel.
As a youth, his father, Dalck Feith, was active in pre-World War II Poland in Betar, a militantly Zionist movement and forerunner of Israel’s Likud Party. His parents perished in the Nazi Holocaust, according to the neo-conservative ‘Wall Street Journal’, which last week demanded a public apology from Powell for his reference to Feith’s operation as the ”Gestapo Office….”.

Oh boy….must we now call Powell an anti-semite too?
Shame on Powell – doesn’t he know that slogan is copyrighted?

“…In 1997, Feith argued in ‘Commentary’ magazine for Israel to re-occupy the Occupied Territories and repudiate the Oslo accords, and the following year he signed an open letter to then-President Bill Clinton calling for Washington work with Chalabi’s INC to oust Hussein….”

Well – just goes to show…sometimes if you just push hard enough – you can get what you want.

But – I’m still wondering….How has all this helped the USA?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break:_A_New_Strategy_for_Securing_the_Realm
According to the report’s preamble[1], it was
“prepared by the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies’ Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000. The main substantive ideas in this paper emerge from a discussion in which prominent opinion makers, including Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr.,

Douglas Feith,

Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser participated.”
Richard Perle, according to a footnote in the report, was the “Study Group Leader”.

“Securing the Northern Border”
“Syria challenges Israel on Lebanese soil. An effective approach, and one with which American can sympathize, would be if Israel seized the strategic initiative along its northern borders by engaging Hizballah, Syria, and Iran, as the principal agents of aggression in Lebanon…..”

“Moving to a Traditional Balance of Power Strategy”
“Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right …..”

Here is another link about “A Clean Break….”
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/63/21831

What a coincidence….Israel wanted Saddam out of the picture….Mission Accomplished.

(I always keep forgeting why it is we are in Iraq killing Iraqis)

Now on to Iran……

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,999737,00.html

“….The OSP was an open and largely unfiltered conduit to the White House not only for the Iraqi opposition. It also forged close ties to a parallel, ad hoc intelligence operation inside Ariel Sharon’s office in Israel specifically to bypass Mossad and provide the Bush administration with more alarmist reports on Saddam’s Iraq than Mossad was prepared to authorise.
“None of the Israelis who came were cleared into the Pentagon through normal channels,” said one source familiar with the visits. Instead, they were waved in on Mr Feith’s authority without having to fill in the usual forms.
The exchange of information continued a long-standing relationship Mr Feith and other Washington neo-conservatives had with Israel’s Likud party.
In 1996, he and Richard Perle – now an influential Pentagon figure – served as advisers to the then Likud leader, Binyamin Netanyahu. In a policy paper they wrote, entitled A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, the two advisers said that Saddam would have to be destroyed, and Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iran would have to be overthrown or destabilised, for Israel to be truly safe.
The Israeli influence was revealed most clearly by a story floated by unnamed senior US officials in the American press, suggesting the reason that no banned weapons had been found in Iraq was that they had been smuggled into Syria. Intelligence sources say that the story came from the office of the Israeli prime minister. …”

In yesterday’s L.A. Times, Feith had a letter to the editors claiming he NEVER claimed there was “an operational” link between Hussein’s Iraq and Al-Qaeda.

This guy is slipperier than a greased pig at a homecoming game!

Yesterday, the boy-king spoke — He is “certain” of the source for weapons in Iraq and he will “do something about it.” Equipping the troops on the ground would be a good start. He prefers to widen the war to Iran. Today, he plans to add more troops to Afghanistan. He is merely assembling more bodies in the theater.

Feith and the rest of the neocons deserve to be tried at the Hague. But I don’t see that event coming to pass.