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trying to salvage his reputation by blaming everybody else. And yet Frank's description of him as "the stupidest fucking guy on the planet" will always stick to him like white on rice.
Such a shame, so very young and yet his life is already over. Heh.
My dogs think we're all totally nuts, but how do I explain Daylight Savings Time to them?
by Shiborg on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 06:45:05 AM PDT
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because every time he opens his mouth he confirms that statement.
If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse - George Carlin
by brenda on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 08:00:50 AM PDT
Tommy Franks isn't that far behind in the list of Stupidest Fucking People On the Planet.
"Mom, did you hurt yourself, or are you yelling at the TV again?
by litigatormom on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 08:21:34 AM PDT
At least now we're in no danger of Tommy Franks, GOP Congressman. (Or worse.) His attempt to cash in on American Iraqamania was mecifully short-lived.
Psst! Don't panic
by Quicklund on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 08:30:40 AM PDT
Franks decision to send Afghan forces to try to kill or apprehend Bin Laden instead of US troops must rank as one of the stupidest decisions in the history of warfare. He has never been properly called to account for it. I wonder, however, if he was told not to capture Bin Laden. If Bin Laden had been captured, it would have been much more difficult to sell the invasion of Iraq and the wholesale erosion of constitutional rights in the US. Yes I know it is easy to deride conspiracy theories, but it is clear that the entire lead up to the invasion of Iraq was a conspiracy of monumental scope. With Bushco the absurd is plausible, the unthinkable is routine.
by Eric Blair on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:45:17 AM PDT
he still owns his Georgetown U gig. Probably on the fast-track to tenure, too. He's currently shilling his book deal. He's living high on the hog.
If his life is already over, then I was never even born. This worthless fuck deserves keelhauling. "Stupidest guy on Earth" is hardly the end of his life; it's his life-long mealticket.
by Quicklund on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 08:27:49 AM PDT
we allow the Neo-cons to remain in power.
"Stupidest guy on Earth" is hardly the end of his life; it's his life-long mealticket.
There's always the AEI, if the whole teaching gig doesn't pan out...
Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the way before it is understood.
by Granny Doc on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 08:32:24 AM PDT
sister org to AEI - they cross pollinate each other
by SwingVoter on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 09:31:09 AM PDT
I read the penultimate paragraph in the diary to mean "read the WaPo article", not "read the book" because I can't imagine any Kossack pushing this drivel. Don't pay for this crap - it won't make your garden grow. it's the job of reporters to read and report on this stuff, but not ours ;).
I wonder if they'll do other parts of their job, tooo (like debunking some of the lies they've passed on to us over the last seven+ years).
On Liberation Day, 1/20/09, Americans will greet us with flowers and candy
by kamarvt on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 09:49:34 AM PDT
in the next election is who would put the most distance between the Government and these war-loving SOB's.
by edbb on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 11:17:28 AM PDT
That much is beyond question.
Doug Feith The IG's unclassified report, released in April 2007, corroborated allegations that Feith was behind efforts to erroneously connect Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime with al-Qaida. The report found that despite widespread consensus among intelligence agencies, including the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), that there was no conclusive evidence linking Iraq to al-Qaida, Feith ignored these conclusions. In a September 2002 briefing delivered to Vice President Dick Cheney and other administration higher-ups, Feith asserted that the relationship between Iraq and al-Qaida was, according to a Washington Post account, "'mature' and 'symbiotic,' marked by shared interests and evidenced by cooperation across 10 categories, including training, financing, and logistics."
Doug Feith
The IG's unclassified report, released in April 2007, corroborated allegations that Feith was behind efforts to erroneously connect Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime with al-Qaida. The report found that despite widespread consensus among intelligence agencies, including the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), that there was no conclusive evidence linking Iraq to al-Qaida, Feith ignored these conclusions. In a September 2002 briefing delivered to Vice President Dick Cheney and other administration higher-ups, Feith asserted that the relationship between Iraq and al-Qaida was, according to a Washington Post account, "'mature' and 'symbiotic,' marked by shared interests and evidenced by cooperation across 10 categories, including training, financing, and logistics."
Feith is also an advocate of hard line policies in Israel.
Feith is also well known for his participation, along with neoconservative big wigs Richard Perle and David Wurmser, in penning a 1996 study organized by the Israel-based Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies that urged scrapping the then-ongoing peace process. The study, titled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," advised Prime Minister-elect Netanyahu "to work closely with Turkey and Jordan to contain, destabilize, and roll back" regional threats, to help overthrow Hussein, and to strike "Syrian military targets in Lebanon" and possibly in Syria proper.
But it was not until a new Likud government was formed under Ariel Sharon, and when Feith and other Zionists such as Paul Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, and Michael Rubin, together with militarists such as Rumsfeld and Cheney, took over control of Middle East policy during the Bush II administration, that Israel, supported by the United States, made a "clean break" from the Oslo framework. Typical of other neoconservatives, in public statements Feith has not referred to his Zionist convictions. Rather, in congressional testimony and in op-eds in major media, Feith has argued that U.S. policy in the Middle East should be guided by concerns about human rights and democracy. Israel, according to this side of Feith, should never enter into good-faith negotiations with Arab countries or the PA because they are not democratic. Moreover, human rights violations in Syria, Iran, and Iraq justify aggressive U.S. and Israeli policies aimed at ousting undemocratic and repressive regimes. Israeli occupations are justified in the name of ensuring the national security of democratic Israel. (See, for example, Feith's testimony before the U.S. House Human Rights Caucus, April 24, 1991.)
But it was not until a new Likud government was formed under Ariel Sharon, and when Feith and other Zionists such as Paul Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, and Michael Rubin, together with militarists such as Rumsfeld and Cheney, took over control of Middle East policy during the Bush II administration, that Israel, supported by the United States, made a "clean break" from the Oslo framework.
Typical of other neoconservatives, in public statements Feith has not referred to his Zionist convictions. Rather, in congressional testimony and in op-eds in major media, Feith has argued that U.S. policy in the Middle East should be guided by concerns about human rights and democracy. Israel, according to this side of Feith, should never enter into good-faith negotiations with Arab countries or the PA because they are not democratic. Moreover, human rights violations in Syria, Iran, and Iraq justify aggressive U.S. and Israeli policies aimed at ousting undemocratic and repressive regimes. Israeli occupations are justified in the name of ensuring the national security of democratic Israel. (See, for example, Feith's testimony before the U.S. House Human Rights Caucus, April 24, 1991.)
Likudnik/NeoCon influence on U.S. policy is still palying out today throughout the Middle East especialy in Iraq and Gaza.
Government should treat its citizens like human beings, not profit generating units for the Corporate Aristocracy to use and abuse any way they choose
by Lefty Coaster on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 11:44:27 AM PDT
Nobody is gonna make a Condi joke here?
How about "You mean, like Rice on rich whites"?
Hmmmm . . . Needs work. Any input, guys?
by Tuffy on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:30:18 AM PDT
Ouch.
Bottled hot water for dehydrated babies? WTF?!
by JVolvo on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 11:50:06 AM PDT
He'll park his ass in a think tank for a while and then get selected to lead some serious-sounding Pentagon planning unit when the next Republican president takes office. Unless, of course, President Obama decides he's going to uphold the rule of law and prosecute the bastards who lied us into committing aggression. Then the next Republican president may have to find a new pool of recruits to staff the levers of his administration, because the usual suspects would be in prison.
-7.75, -7.64 www.politicalcompass.org "When the intellectual history of this era is finally written, it will scarcely be believable." -- Noam Chomsky
by scorponic on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 11:51:43 AM PDT
you feature in your sig, and think it needs all the play it can possibly get.
Is Hillary R. Clinton an opportunistic, pandering, triangulating, hypocrite or what? Make all the policy arguments you want, but do we need any more proof of her true bent than her kissing the ass of a rival politician who has publicly insulted her own daughter in this manner? Ick! That is just so deeply offensive, on so many levels.
by karmsy on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 11:58:26 AM PDT
wide narrow
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