Good News for America! Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglass J. Feith announced that he is leaving his post this Summer!
Feith has been the third-ranking civilian in the Department of Defense, and was the man who set up the specialized Intelligence analysis organization in the Office of the Secretary of Defense that cherry-picked elements of Intelligence from and about Iraq that created the impression that Iraq was a major immediate threat to America and fed those directly to Vice President Cheney to be used in the propaganda that took America into the useless quagmire in Iraq.
Chris Suellentrop of Slate described him like this: "Feith, who ranks with Wolfowitz in purity of neoconservative fervor, has turned out to be Michael Dukakis in reverse: ideology without competence. " Suellentrop states in the same article that Feith has had at least a hand in every screwup the Bush admininstration has carried out from selling the war in Iraq as primarily one to remove WMD to the Abu Ghraib disaster.
General Tommy Franks is quoted in Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack as describing Feith as: "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth."
America will be much better off with his earliest possible departure from the Department of Defense. We would be even better off if we could perhaps convince Putin to take him and exile him to the furthest reaches of Siberia. Good riddance!
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