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Iraq war architect blames Powell for Iraq
04/25/2008 @ 8:54 am
Filed by John Byrne
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Feith_says_Iraq_war_not_my_0425.htmlhttp://rawstory.com/news/2008/Feith_says_Iraq_war_not_my_0425.html
Blames Powell, Armitage, Bremer, Rumsfeld, Rice
The man who led the office that supplied the Bush Administration with "raw
intelligence" on Iraq now says everyone else is to blame but himself.
Douglas Feith, President Bush's former Under Secretary of Defense for
Policy, headed the Office of Special Plans, a secretive outfit which
passed along unverified "alternative" intelligence to Administration
decisionmakers in the run up to war.
A Senate Intelligence Committee report found that the Office "developed,
produced, and then disseminated alternative intelligence assessments on
the Iraq and al Qaida relationship, which included some conclusions that
were inconsistent with the consensus of the Intelligence Community, to
senior decision-makers."
In other words, they passed on "intelligence" that was never vetted, much
of which appeared to align with a hawkish Administration agenda.
On Thursday, Feith pointed his finger at everyone but himself regarding
the war in Iraq. According to the Washington Post's Dana Milbank, at a
book-launch party for his new book, "War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon
at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism," Feith blamed a laundry list of
officials for failing "to challenge the logic of going to war."
Blames Bush, too
"He argued that former secretary of state Colin Powell and his deputy,
Richard Armitage, were the ones who failed to challenge the logic of going
to war -- not him," Milbank wrote. "He suggested that Powell, Armitage,
Franks, former Iraq viceroy Jerry Bremer and even Feith's old boss, Donald
Rumsfeld, should be blamed for the postwar chaos in Iraq -- not him. He
blamed then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice for the way she
operated ("fundamental differences were essentially papered over rather
than resolved"). He accused the CIA of "improper" and unprofessional
behavior. And he implicitly blamed President Bush for not cracking down on
insubordinate behavior at the State Department."
"Yet at the same time, Feith told the... crowd that he disapproved of the
"snide and shallow self-justification typical in memoirs of former
officials," or what Feith cleverly called the "
'I-was-surrounded-by-idiots' school of memoir writing," Milbank continues.
"Feith pointed out that he supported his account with 140 pages of notes
and documents. And yet, in his hour-long panel discussion, Feith seemed to
be of the impression that he had, in fact, been surrounded by idiots."
Feith himself hasn't escaped accusations that he was aloof during his time
at his Office of Special Plans.
According to Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack, then- Secretary of State Colin
Powell referred to the Office as the "Gestapo" office. Former CIA director
George Tenet called his work "total crap."
When Feith stepped in to back recruiting a brigade of "Free Iraqi Forces"
to enter Iraq with Americans, according to the book Cobra II, "Franks
turned to Feith in a Pentagon corridor, letting him know where he stood:
'I don't have time for this fucking bullshit."
During his book launch party, Feith ironically remarked, "The CIA and the
intelligence community should not be shading intelligence."
Milbank notes that Feith has been out of touch. Vaunting his book on "60
Minutes," Feith asserted the Administration didn't need to claim Iraq had
weapons of mass destruction to invade.
"Pointing so many fingers in so many directions, a man is bound to get
confused -- as happened when Steve Kroft asked him on "60 Minutes" about
his claim that the lack of troops contributed to looting in Baghdad," he
adds. "'I don't believe I raised the troop-level issue in that
connection," Feith replied. Then Kroft presented him with the passage.
"That's a fair point,' Feith amended."
Remarked Milbank wryly, "It must have been very difficult being Doug
Feith: correct all the time, and surrounded by idiots."
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Manchurian Candidate McCain
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 7:12 pm Subject: Manchurian Candidate McCain http://coverthistory.blogspot.com/ Thursday, April 24, 2008 Connie Stevens, alleged McCain paramour This week, McCain is featured in a cover story in the National Examiner, one of the weekly tabloids (and btw, the Examiner does not appear to have a website). The headline: "Shocking Charge: John McCain & Connie Stevens Affair!" There's a photo of John and Connie, arm in arm and all smiles; a subhead next to a mug shot of an unidentified man reads "HE ignited scandal -- then was MURDERED!" Well, this sounds promising, I thought to myself. Here's the story in short order: a in 1999, a "shady businessman and one-time journalist" named Ron Bianchi went to the Arizona Republic to try to hustle a story that McCain was having an affair with his "friend" and political supporter Connie Stevens. Stevens, in case you don't know, was an actress and minor sex symbol back in the day. She's two years younger than McCain. Well, apparently the Arizona Republic didn't bite. And here's when things start to get interesting -- in the Examiner's words, "Bianchi wound up dying in a hail of gunfire the following September -- a crime that's never been solved!" Moreoever, McCain himself "was reportedly grilled by cops in Gila County, where Bianchi's body was found." John McCain: Hero or Collaborator? Does the Vietnamese government have damning audio and film evidence of Senator John McCain's collaboration with the enemy during the Vietnam War? This article Sen John McCain: The "Ultimate Rhinestone Hero" says yes. Other sources have told the U.S. Veteran Dispatch that the Vietnamese are holding as much as fifty hours of film footage secretly taken of McCain during the time his KGB-trained handlers had him isolated from other U.S. prisoners of war. Some of the film, according to the sources, is of McCain receiving special privileges during the time he claims he was being tortured and held in long-term solitary confinement. The sources say interrogators have candid camera footage of McCain with the nurse, who allegedly supplied him with more than just medical attention during those lonely days and nights in so-called solitary confinement. John McCain and the POWs Some of the strongest criticism of John McCain comes from Vietnam-era POWS and their families. They damn him as betraying the cause of POWs left behind after the war ended. Journalist Sydney Schanberg gives an interest account in The War Secrets John McCain Hides But there was one subject that was off-limits, a subject the Arizona senator almost never brings up and has never been open about -- his long-time opposition to releasing documents and information about American prisoners of war in Vietnam and the missing in action who have still not been accounted for. Since McCain himself, a downed Navy pilot, was a prisoner in Hanoi for 5 1/2 years, his staunch resistance to laying open the POW/MIA records has baffled colleagues and others who have followed his career. Critics say his anti-disclosure campaign, in close cooperation with the Pentagon and the intelligence community, has been successful. Literally thousands of documents that would otherwise have been declassified long ago have been legislated into secrecy. Beyond covering up the evidence, and enacting laws to cover up the evidence, as Schanberg shows, McCain also abused witnesses before the committee investigating the POW issue, including Dolores Apodaca Alfond sister of MIA pilot Capt. Victor J. Apodaca. Other than the panel's second co-chairman, Sen. Bob Smith, R-N.H., not a single committee member attended this public hearing. But McCain, having been advised of Alfond's testimony, suddenly rushed into the room to confront her. His face angry and his voice very loud, he accused her of making "allegations ... that are patently and totally false and deceptive." Making a fist, he shook his index finger at her and said she had insulted an emissary to Vietnam sent by President Bush. He said she had insulted other MIA families with her remarks. And then he said, through clenched teeth: "And I am sick and tired of you insulting mine and other people's [patriotism] who happen to have different views than yours." By this time, tears were running down Alfond's cheeks. She reached into her handbag for a handkerchief. She tried to speak: "The family members have been waiting for years -- years! And now you're shutting down." He kept interrupting her. She tried to say, through tears, that she had issued no i
