Comments on: Feith Lies To Congress: ‘I Championed A Policy Of Respect For Geneva’

By: frontline blogger

frontline blogger — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:19:12 +0000

Philippe Sandswill be in conversation with Olenka Frenkiel, an investigative journalist with the BBC, at the Frontline Club in London tonight.

We start at 7.30pm UK time Tues 23 Sept and we’ll be streaming it live:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/frontline-club

Thought you might be interested in watching/embedding/joining in the chat. We’re a journalism charity and I’m trying to get the word out to get more folk watching. It’s pretty straightforward to embed on most blogs, if you’re interested and can’t figure it out, please do let me know :)

By: stilljanet

stilljanet — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:11:48 +0000

A couple of items for some of the above posts.
1st, Mukasey has forgotten apparently that he is “The People’s” lawyer. He won’t do jack. All he does is cover bush butt.

2nd, Rove, while also being an arrogant prick, isn’t in the WH either and yet he doesn’t have to testify.

Lying under oath should land his ass in jail but unfortunately all he will get is a stern letter.

By: bonzo 1958

bonzo 1958 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:17:21 +0000

Whiner.

By: bonzo 1958

bonzo 1958 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:16:49 +0000

DallasNE Says:

Excuse me, but you can’t smear somebody with the truth. Besides, if Feith thinks his smear charge has legs he can take it to civil court and sue the pants off Sands on defamation charges. Frankly, the only smearing I see here is by Feith by charging smearing.

Exactly. feith is hard at work trying to re-write history and his place in it. He also sees which way the wind is blowing in this country. I suspect he’s hard at work trying to clear his name before the doors are closed on his cell. (hopefully)

By: Freedom Rebel

Freedom Rebel — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:45:40 +0000

“Mr. Sands’s account about me is fundamentally wrong.” If that statement isn’t skirting an issue I don’t know what is. The account is either right or wrong. Republicans play word games to evade and prevaricate so that later they can say someone “misstated the facts.” They are all liars and criminals that should never be allowed back into society.

By: Wayne A. Schneider

Wayne A. Schneider — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:17:37 +0000

Is it slander to falsely accuse someone else of slander? Wouldn’t it have to end up in court, with everyone taking an oath to tell the truth, in order to sort it out?

By: DallasNE

DallasNE — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:03:51 +0000

By: bogtrotters

bogtrotters — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:04:11 +0000

To Doug (and Addington, and Gonzales, and Rove, and Yoo, and Bremer, and Rummy, and all the co-conspirators…)

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

–T.S. Eliot

By: Doc Rock

Doc Rock — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:03:45 +0000

They should all be hanged together or separately.

By: citizen_pain

citizen_pain — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:41:32 +0000

Feith is an uber neocon chicken hawk pu55y who looks like he woke up this morning on the couch at some college republican party where they all sat around and circle jerked to some live Fox News coverage.
Please.
He needs to swing in the same gallows as his co-conspiritors (is that a word?) of the Iraqi invasion and occupation (and no doubt 9-11… see PNAC and who signed it).

Lame ass silver spoon daddy’s boy.

By: Pete Tagliani

Pete Tagliani — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:30:53 +0000

He may have “championed” Geneva. But he’s not addressing the accusation that he wasn’t all that gung-ho about applying it. He was apparently saving those conventions for special occasions.
Feith seems to be trying to save himself by splitting hairs, and he’s not doing it very well.
I think Tommy Franks was right about this guy.

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:19:37 +0000

Didn’t have much respect for the Nurnberg Tribunal statements about illegal wars of aggression.

By: 5th Estate

5th Estate — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:02:37 +0000

Guido the Loving OBGYN Says: Why is Feith even showing for these hearings?

Well apart from being an arrogant prick, he’s also not in the WH anymore so he doesn’t have the same protections he used-to have, and I;m guessing he doesn;t have the moolah or friends to put up a strong defense, so he’s got to show and try and get some sympathy.

That’s my guess anyway.

By: helenahandbasket

helenahandbasket — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:01:47 +0000

OT: The Senate followed the House in voting to override bush’s veto of the Medicare bill. McCain didn’t show up, now, having given the elderly the finger twice in one week.
Tell your elderly friends and relatives that while they are struggling with out of sight medical bills, McCain doesn’t even bother to vote.

By: 5th Estate

5th Estate — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:58:32 +0000

“..and I did not recommend that the President set aside Common Article 3….”

but instead recommended that we tear it up completely rather than leaving it lying around.

By: IBTunion4obama

IBTunion4obama — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:56:20 +0000

Which is why we’ve tortured and murdered our detainees without trial, while ignoring every law and international agreement.
Feith sounds like a real winner…

By: robwillcarp

robwillcarp — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:55:59 +0000

I want to applaud the Think Progress innovation of actually using the words ‘Lie’, ‘Liar’ and ‘Lies’. I am so sick of hearing that someone ‘misrepresented the facts’ or was ‘misinformed’ or any of the other dodgy ways to report inaccuracies from government officials (when they indeed get reported at all!). Keep up the good work!

As Always,
Rob

By: dixie blood

dixie blood — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:49:59 +0000

Feith loves Israel FIRST!

By: ralph the wonder llama

ralph the wonder llama — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:49:01 +0000

…Sorry — that should be “given the disdain with which the Right HOLDS the pussified Geneva Convention”

By: ralph the wonder llama

ralph the wonder llama — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:48:22 +0000

Feith has tried to whitewash his role in the administration’s torture program before, for example, telling right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt that he was “extremely strongly pro-Geneva convention.”

Well, I hope that Hewitt tore him a new one, given the disdain with which the Right hopes the pussified geneva Convention.