America wants out.Gallup: Which do you think is better for the US: to keep a significant number of troops in Iraq until the situation there gets better, even if that takes many years, or to set a timetable for removing troops from Iraq and to stick to that timetable regardless of what is going on in Iraq? All AmericansSet a timetable for withdrawl: 60%Keep troops in Iraq until the situation gets better: 35% DemocratsSet a timetable for withdrawl: 81%Keep troops in Iraq until the situation gets better: 15% IndependentsSet a timetable for withdrawl: 61%Keep troops in Iraq until the situation … Continue reading Remember This During Gen. Betrayus’ Testimony

From the glorious Culture of Truth: Kroft: you’re an idiot – what are you doing now? Feith: teaching at Georgetown Feith: if Bush had listened to me and put Chalabi in charge things would have been fine Kroft: General Franks says you’re the dumbest mother fucker on the planet Feith: ah – but not Venus or Mars, right Kroft: people seem to hate you Feith: they are just pissed because i faked intelligence to trick america in to war Kroft: oh so just whining A. Continue reading More Doug Feith

Huh-Oh. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blasted the U.S. State Department for renewing its contract with the Blackwater security firm, saying the company has yet to answer for what he called a “massacre” last year. The Iraqi government was not consulted on the State Department decision, he said. “No judicial action has been taken and no compensation has been made,” al-Maliki said Sunday. “Therefore, this extension requires the approval of the Iraqi government, and the government would want to resolve the outstanding issues with this company.” [snip] … al-Maliki said Sunday that the renewal of Blackwater’s contract isn’t final “because … Continue reading Puppet Trouble

Throwing these fucksticks in federal prison would be a good start. Seriously–now what?  Hopefully, come January, we can start to fix some of the damage from the Bush years. That set of tasks makes the labors of Heracles look like a fucking Sunday school picnic. Basically, we need an entire overhaul of foreign and domestic policy. (Sounds kind of simple when you put it like that, doesn’t it?) Despite the vital nature of fixing things, however, we face an even more important job: How do we keep this shit from ever happening again? Reading Athenae’s description of and reaction to … Continue reading What to Do?

Pretty much: The risks of war, says Feith, were well known and documented in a memo from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that Feith refers to as “the parade of horribles” in his upcoming Harper Collins book, War and Decision. They included ruining the reputation of America overseas, strengthening Muslim militant resolve and triggering the ethnic strife occurring in Iraq now. What they didn’t anticipate? “That the Bathist regime, even after it was overthrown, would be in a position to organize and recruit for and to finance and command an insurgency,” says Feith. His book also addresses the fact that the … Continue reading Feith: I’d Do It Again

VS. Liberal blogosphere or Bush admininstration hack: Who would you trust? It’s been two years, so I can forgive people who went looking for information about Feith recently if they overlookedthis, what was one of the first progressive blogosphere forays into publishing, before it became the hot new thing to do. With Doug Feith’sexcuse opus coming out next month (for the love of God, don’t pay for the thing, steal it from somewhere or read over somebody’s shoulder), it occurs to me that it might be worth reminding people that there were, in fact, people on this story before anybody … Continue reading The Doug Feith Primer