http://poligazette.com/2008/03/10/dough-feith-talks-trash/ Politics and world events from a moderately liberal and conservative perspective Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:02:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 http://poligazette.com/2008/03/10/dough-feith-talks-trash/#comment-30249 kritter Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:03:34 +0000 http://poligazette.com/2008/03/10/dough-feith-talks-trash/#comment-30249 Amazing that he would blame Powell and let Rumsfeld off the hook! By 2006 military leaders were basically admitting that they couldn't work with him at all, and most experts blame the strategy of planning the war on the cheap on him. I think Bush felt that Americans would not support the war if they noticed it was costing too much or taking too long, and so those aspects of our involvement was constantly minimized.  If I remember another early advisor was Kissenger, who would have warned the administration not to let public opinion go sour, as it did in Vietnam. BTW, Feith left out Wolfie. There's probably enough blame to go around but Feith, Wolfie, Franks, Rummy, Cheney, Bremer and Bush probably deserve most of it. Amazing that he would blame Powell and let Rumsfeld off the hook! By 2006 military leaders were basically admitting that they couldn’t work with him at all, and most experts blame the strategy of planning the war on the cheap on him. I think Bush felt that Americans would not support the war if they noticed it was costing too much or taking too long, and so those aspects of our involvement was constantly minimized.  If I remember another early advisor was Kissenger, who would have warned the administration not to let public opinion go sour, as it did in Vietnam.
BTW, Feith left out Wolfie. There’s probably enough blame to go around but Feith, Wolfie, Franks, Rummy, Cheney, Bremer and Bush probably deserve most of it.

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