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[Marine Corps Community for USMC Veterans] Why We Went to War in Iraq: Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz asked if the U.S. might create an autonomous area in southern Iraq similar to the autonomous Kurdish region in the north, with the goal of making Saddam little more than the "mayor of Baghdad." U.S. officials also discussed whether a popular uprising in Iraq should be encouraged, and how we could best work with free Iraqi groups that opposed the Saddam regime.
[OrangePower.Com] Why we went to war in Iraq - WSJ: Douglas Feith, under secretary of defense for policy from 2001 to 2005, is author of "War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism" (HarperCollins, 2008), the author's proceeds of which are being donated to charities for veterans and their families.
[The View From 1776] Why We Went to War in Iraq: Read Douglas J. Feith’s opinion article in the Wall Street Journal.
[Chrisy58's Weblog] US Army Blames Leaders Over Post-War Iraq: Colleagues of Rumsfeld, such as his former under-secretary Douglas Feith, have suggested that the Pentagon was let down by poor intelligence from the CIA. Since standing down in 2006, Rumsfeld has been working on a book of his own.
[Pakistan Ledger: Unbiased World news & views] Dual citizenship; Single loyalty? Alliegence to whom?: The former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst with expertise in Iranian policy issues who worked in the office of Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith and reported directly to Feith's deputy, William Luti, was sentenced January 20, 2006, "to more than 12 years in prison for giving classified information to an Israeli diplomat" and members of the pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
[Creative Minority Report] Georgetown Loses Feith: Perhaps most seriously, he was a central figure in the dissemination of false justifications for the illegal invasion of Iraq, behavior that many experts consider to constitute war crimes, and which the most sympathetic would have to think a highly dubious grounds for further employment.”
[Mondoweiss] Doug Feith Has the Best Reasons in the World to Be a Zionist, But ...: But though he honors the Holocaust background of his family (and acknowledges his role in JINSA's formation), Feith gives no indication at all of these deeply-held views in the book. In fact, when Richard Armitage of the State Department basically explodes at Feith, Paul Wolfowitz and Scooter Libby during a strategy meeting re Iraq, saying that we have to deal with the Palestinian problem first, the sphinx Libby pipes up for once and tells Armitage to cool off, and Feith implies in this book that Armitage is guilty of anti-Jewish feeling.
[The Washington Independent - US news and politics - washingtonindependent.com] The Return of the Neocons: former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith -- silence has not equaled happiness. It certainly has not meant acceptance of their fate at the hands of the many journalists, former generals and assorted ex-members of the Bush administration who have taken to the cable talk fests and the nation’s media outlets to reject and denounce them.
[mirabile dictu] In Bad Feith: To permit the Iraqi dictator to remain in power was to give him “a chance to intimidate and hurt the United States”””an intolerable prospect. Viewed from this perspective, the much-ballyhooed failure to find any nuclear or biological weapons or to establish any connection between Saddam and Al Qaeda is simply beside the point.
[Simonewos's Weblog] THE Incalculably Namby-pamby INTEL: Doug Feith’s, naturallyTo”¦: If oneself’touching rare, these claims constituted syncretized in regard to the of common occurrence confounded planks inlet Colin Powell’s parlance in transit to the UN Loaves and fishes Directory chief up to the mustering in reference to alacrity in preference to tourney from Iraq.
[TRAVLINROSE'S GYPSY JOURNAL] NEOCONS AGGRESSIVELY REWRITING IRAQ WAR HISTORY: But for the Pentagon troika most identified with Iraq - former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith -- silence has not equaled happiness. It certainly has not meant acceptance of their fate at the hands of the many journalists, former generals and assorted ex-members of the Bush administration who have taken to the cable talk fests and the nation’s media outlets to reject and denounce them.
[BuckeyeBlog] Who let the grown ups into the debate?: Shame on the press for that. And shame on the Bush administration for letting someone else do so much better a job of articulating the basic case than they did or do.
[Walash's Weblog] Iraq: A War For Israel: Entitled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,” it was written under the auspices of an Israeli think tank, the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies. Specifically, it called for an “effort [that] can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq, an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right…” [8]
[Redstate blogs] Seeking Redstaters to Rise in Defense of State & the CIA: From his telling, it's almost as if the debacle that the War in Iraq (almost) became was the direct result of interference, foot-dragging, and cowardly bureaucratic manipulation by the State department under Powell, and the CIA under Tenet.
[No More Incumbents Blog] Article XXI: Impeachment of George W Bush: Evidence suggests that the Bush Administration’s attempts to portray Iran as a threat are part of a broader U.S. policy toward Iran. On September 30, 2001, then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld established an official military objective of overturning the regime in Iran, as well as those in Iraq, Syria, and four other countries in the Middle East, according to a document quoted in then-Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith’s book, “War and Decision.”
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