{"id":2165,"date":"2008-05-13T14:48:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T19:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2008-05-13T15:10:20","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T20:10:20","slug":"feith-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/13\/feith-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Feith based initiatives…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n

If you didn’t<\/u> see Jon Stewart interview Douglas Fieth, watch it here<\/strong><\/a>. If you did<\/u> see Jon Stewart interview Douglas Faith, watch it here<\/strong><\/a> [it includes parts that didn’t air]. The interview speaks for itself, but there’s one point I’d like to make about the interview.<\/p>\n

Douglas Feith was trying to explain to Jon Stewart the President’s dilemma after 9\/11. He said the usual, that after 9\/11 the President had to think about more that the "law enforcement" model – punish the bad guys. He had to think about the next attack, and where it might come from ergo<\/strong><\/em> the other Hostile Arab States ergo<\/strong><\/em> Saddam Hussein. He implies the President Bush came up with this after a lot of thought. On the surface of things, that sounds reasonable. But it flies in the face of the facts. This Plan was crafted before there was a 9\/11 – in fact, before Bush was even elected. You can read it right here, The Letter to President Clinton<\/strong><\/a>, in January 1998 from the Project for the New American Century – <\/strong>signed by Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. If you want to sift through the papers of the American Enterprise Institute<\/strong>, you can find it in multiple writings [Laurie Mylroie, John Bolton, all of your favorites]. And you can find it in the writings of Paul O’Niell and Richard Clarke – writing about the pre-911 Bush Administration. Feith’s portrayal of Bush reaching his decision on Iraq after thoughtful debate and contemplation is ludicrous. Feith’s own boss, Donald Rumsfeld<\/strong><\/a>, was talking about getting Saddam Hussein on September 11th, 2001 [with my transcriptions added when it became public in early 2006]:<\/div>\n
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It also says, "Tasks Jim Haynes [DoD Legal Counsel] to talk with PW [Paul Wolfowitz] for additional support  …?… connection with UBL [Osama bin Laden]." So at 2PM on September 11th, 2001, Rumsfeld is tasking his counsel to talk to Paul Wolfowitz [signer of the 1998 PNAC Letter along with Rumsfeld] to begin to build a case against Saddam Hussein and his connections with bin Laden. And who ultimately made those connections? Douglas Feith, the very guy that’s telling Jon Stewart that the Iraq invasion was a post-911 decision made by George Bush. And then there’s the unreleased Rumsfeld September 30, 2001 Memo<\/strong><\/a> that apparently list a number of targets.<\/p>\n

As my father was known to repeat more than I enjoyed hearing, "I don’t mind you peeing in my boot, but don’t tell me it’s water."<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you didn’t see Jon Stewart interview Douglas Fieth, watch it here. If you did see Jon Stewart interview Douglas Faith, watch it here [it includes parts that didn’t air]. The interview speaks for itself, but there’s one point I’d like to make about the interview. Douglas Feith was trying to explain to Jon Stewart […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}