Douglas Feith Keeps Spinning Fairy Tales About Iraq

Feith: no credibility at all!

Douglas Feith: A man without a shred of credibility. A man wrong on nearly everything he touched. A misleader who helped bamboozle a gullible nation into a disastrous war. A man who deserves to be in prison rather than in print.

Chris of AZ

Both Al Qaeda and the Taliban are shrinking. New theme parks and resorts are being planned in Iraq? " We don't have full (100%) control over Iraq or Afghanistan but then where is it that people are 100% safe"??? Scott McClellan knows less than you? A traitor?

Chris, put down the huka pipe, old man. Your brain is mis-firing

Mashek, I believe that you are the one who are being revisionist.

"Paul O'Neill, Bush's first treasury secretary, wrote that Bush could not stop thinking about Iraq even before 9/11. Scott McClellan, although on the sidelines as an assistant press secretary, wrote that the White House was obsessed with selling the war to the public—much of it in secret."

Great. In order to justify your argument, you use a treasury secretary who doesn't even have authorization to talk about defense matters and a turncoat who was not only aloof in his job, but continued to be aloof after he left. Your argument is so sound.

"The nation is still paying a price for that blunder. The Taliban is surging back and forcing the United States to send more manpower to the battered country."

Well, what about the true enemy of the U.S., Al Qaeda? How are they doing nowadays? By the by, even though Afghanistan is going rough, we are still controlling that country. Maybe you can convince some of your lib friends in other countries, you know, this coaltion-of-the-willing, to support this NATO operation more than they have up until now.

"The essay by Feith also fails to touch on the lack of preparation in the aftermath of toppling Hussein. We were told we would be treated as liberators, rather than occupiers. We were told Iraqi oil would pay for most of the recovery effort there."

The good ol' lib argument. Try watching Fox News for a change. If that's too "conservative" for you, then try reading Michael O'Hanlon at the center left Brookings Institution. Were things poorly planned in the beginning? Yes, but things have turned around, so much so that foreign countries (imagine that) are now starting to invest in Iraq. The UAE, in an effort to reestablish diplomatic ties, forgave all of Iraq's debt. Instead of just giving American oil companies first dibs on oil contracts (oh no! War for oil!!), Iraq is now having a bid (preferably, for the sake of expediency, they should've just stuck with the American oil companies). New theme parks and resorts are being planned, and reconstruction efforts are happening at a faster pace. Of course, this by no means is to say that Iraq is 100% safe; then again, nowhere is 100% safe on this planet.

"Douglas Feith, the under secretary of defense to Donald Rumsfeld, is a prime offender. Leave it to the Wall Street Journal opinion page to give him a forum for false claims, most recently on Independence Day."

Hmm, who to believe? A former undersecretary that had access to defense policy, or a traitor press secretary who is a fool or a treasury secretary who had no clearance? You be the judge.