April 8, 2007 7:35 AM

Another DUMB@$$ AWARD wiener

(To those of you offending by profanity, I offer my humble apologies. I normally try to minimize my use of profanity, but there are times, such as this, when it’s an integral part of the story. Mea culpa….)

Breaking: You Were Right, They Were Wrong, Again

Doug Feith’s Stupidest Fucking Website on the Internet

Doug Feith Responds With ‚Äö√Ñ√≤Naked Incoherence’ To Evidence That He Manipulated Iraq Intel

Douglas Feith: What has the Pentagon’s third man done wrong? Everything.

Hussein’s Prewar Ties To Al-Qaeda Discounted: Pentagon Report Says Contacts Were Limited

DUMB@$$ AWARD wiener #563: Douglas Feith

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.)…said in a written statement that…that a key Pentagon office — run by then-Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith — had inappropriately written intelligence assessments before the March 2003 invasion alleging connections between al-Qaeda and Iraq that the U.S. intelligence consensus disputed. The report, in a passage previously marked secret, said Feith’s office had asserted in a briefing given to Cheney’s chief of staff in September 2002 that the relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda was “mature” and “symbiotic,” marked by shared interests and evidenced by cooperation across 10 categories, including training, financing and logistics. Instead, the report said, the CIA had concluded in June 2002 that there were few substantiated contacts between al-Qaeda operatives and Iraqi officials and had said that it lacked evidence of a long-term relationship like the ones Iraq had forged with other terrorist groups.

What do you get when “the dumbest fucking guy on the planet” (I only wish I could claim credit for THAT one) is the same one charged with analyzing (and, ultimately, manipulating) intelligence regarding any possible connection between Saddam Hussein’s regime and al-Qaeda prior to 9.11? Well, given what’s transpired over the past 5+ years, I hardly need to answer that question, do I? You get a war purchase with lies and manipulated intelligence, with more than 3,000 dead Americans to show for it.

Feith, who Gen. Tommy Franks did indeed once describe as “the dumbest fucking guy on the planet”, was, as former Undersecretary of Defense for Propaganda…er, Policy, one of the True Believers charged with making the case for war with Iraq. Intelligence being the often fungible commodity that it is, it couldn’t have been too difficult for Feith to make the “facts” fit the desired result- which was that there was a clear and undeniable connection to be made between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.

Having resigned and landed softly in the cushy realm of academia at Georgetown University, Feith could simply ignore his detractors, and the report that links his office to some serious intelligence manipulation. He could, but then he wouldn’t be a DUMB@$$, would he? No, of course not. Being a true DUMB@$$, and generally validating Gen. Franks’ description of him, Feith put up what Wonkette charitably described as the “dumbest fucking website on the planet”, ostensibly to give his side of the story. Douglasfeith.com can really only fairly be described as being little more than intellectual masturbation: self-serving, messy, and yet ultimately unsatisfying.

On February 7, 2007, the Defense Department’s Inspector General (“IG”) reported on pre-Iraq-War activities of the Pentagon’s policy organization. The report spawned a lot of inaccurate commentary by politicians and misreporting by journalists.

Democratic Senators Carl Levin and Jay Rockefeller have been saying that President Bush lied our country into war with Iraq. They claim the IG report supports that argument. But the “Bush lied, people died” argument is not true.

This IG report controversy is, in essence, a debate over whether President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary Rumsfeld and I are liars or just really fucking stupid. I think everyone, with the possible exception of David Broder, already knows the truth. I mean it’s been obvious that the President is a fucking idiot since day one. As for Cheney and Rumsfeld, they hired me didn’t they and I’m fucking dumber than a dittohead. Just ask Gen. Franks. He’ll tell you I’m “the dumbest fucking guy on the planet.”

Worse yet, the stupid bastards listened to me. I didn’t know what the fuck I was talking about. I just repeated whatever Ahmad Chalabi told me to say. He gave me doughnuts.

OK, so I normally am not wont to rely on parody sites for a DUMB@$$ AWARD, but this one was just too good to pass up- never mind being too close to the apparent truth. You can’t lead what turns out to be the Pentagon’s Department of Cheap, Massaged Propagnda and expect not to be called on the carpet by those of us who recognize your work as cheap, massaged propaganda. Of course, all you were doing was giving Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader &copy what he wanted, right??

The sad thing is that Feith and his fellow propagandists will get off without so much as a slap on the wrist. It could reasonably be argued that responsibility for the deaths of more than 3,000 Americans could be laid directly at his feet, and yet nothing will happen to him. No, Feith is now safely ensconced in the ivory tower of academia, where he can proclaim to the four winds that the work product of his office has been horribly and unfairly misinterpreted for partisan purposes.

Whatever….

So when does a DUMB@$$ cross the (often all too thin) line between active, entertaining ignorance and criminal, malicious, highly partisan, and propagandistic stupidity? There are many in BushWorld who have one foot over the line. Douglas Feith “jumped the broom”, as it were, a long time ago. And how was he rewarded? With a cushy position at Georgetown University, when by all rights he should be wearing an orange jumpsuit in a federal prison.

Somewhere, Josef Goebbels and Niccolo Machiavelli are smiling….

How does Douglas Feith sleep at night? When you’re a DUMB@$$ AND a True Believer, you no doubt sleep like a baby….

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