Friday, May 23, 2008

NEO-CON WAR WHORE WRONG AGAIN

That's not surprising but it's good to keep track of the gigantic hole the neo-conservatives have dig for themselves. This time it's Noah Pollak in Commentary who writes this falsehood:
The book I’m talking about, of course, is War and Decision, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Doug Feith’s account of his role in the Iraq war. And it is being subjected to an astonishing and shameful blackout from many of America’s biggest newspapers. Noting the decision of the Washington Post and New York Times not to review the book,

The WaPo did review this piece of neo-con crap:
Ex-Defense Official Assails Colleagues Over Run-Up to War

By Thomas E. Ricks and Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, March 9, 2008; A01

In the first insider account of Pentagon decision-making on Iraq, one of the key architects of the war blasts former secretary of state Colin Powell, the CIA, retired Gen. Tommy R. Franks and former Iraq occupation chief L. Paul Bremer for mishandling the run-up to the invasion and the subsequent occupation of the country.

Douglas J. Feith, in a massive score-settling work, portrays an intelligence community and a State Department that repeatedly undermined plans he developed as undersecretary of defense for policy and conspired to undercut President Bush's policies.

Among the disclosures made by Feith in "War and Decision," scheduled for release next month by HarperCollins, is Bush's declaration, at a Dec. 18, 2002, National Security Council meeting, that "war is inevitable." The statement came weeks before U.N. weapons inspectors reported their initial findings on Iraq and months before Bush delivered an ultimatum to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Feith, who says he took notes at the meeting, registered it as a "momentous comment."

Commenter Doug Feith can eat my ass notes many other reviews and or mentions in the press.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey dude, the Washington Post piece you mentioned is not a book review. It was a news story. Nice try.

Anonymous said...

http://www.antiwar.com/scheuer/?articleid=12771

Well, here's a concise review, dude.

Steve J. said...

ANON -

A front page article in the WaPo is a lot better than a mere book review.