Rick Perry Meets with Doug Feith

[Political Junky]

Is America ready for another George W. Bush?

From Perry, neocon tea leaves - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com
Rick Perry has yet to launch his 2012 presidential campaign, but his meeting in Austin last week, reported in National Review and elsewhere, with a set of Republican foreign policy hands seems to offer a glimpse at his emergent platform.

Perry reportedly met former Bush aides Doug Feith and William Luti, both strong internal backers of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, Daniel Fata, whose article today is headed, "Why Iraq Still Matters."
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Douglas Feith
Described by General Tommy Franks as either "the dumbest fucking guy on the planet" (according to Franks' autobiography) or "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the Earth" (according to Bob Woodward's book Plan of Attack), Douglas Feith began his long Washington career as a Middle East specialist under Richard V. Allen at the National Security Council (1981-82), then he spent two years at the Pentagon as the staff lawyer for Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle. Then in 1984 Feith was promoted to Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy, where he stayed for another two-and-a-half years before leaving for the private sector.

 

[Avatar4321]

So because Rick Perry is also a Governor of Texas, he is exactly like President Bush?

I guess that means that since Obama is also the President of the United States that he is exactly like President Bush too.

Oh wait... he is, just worse.

 

[Dot Com]

Went right over one righties head so far.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_J._Feith#Bush_administration

Feith joined the administration of President George W. Bush as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy in 2001. As part of his portfolio, he supervised the Pentagon Office of Special Plans, a group of policy and intelligence analysts created to provide senior government officials with raw intelligence, unvetted by the intelligence community.[8] The office, eventually dismantled, was later criticized in Congress and the media for analysis that was contradicted by CIA analysis and investigations performed following the invasion of Iraq.

 

[Sallow]

Went right over one righties head so far.

Douglas J. Feith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Feith joined the administration of President George W. Bush as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy in 2001. As part of his portfolio, he supervised the Pentagon Office of Special Plans, a group of policy and intelligence analysts created to provide senior government officials with raw intelligence, unvetted by the intelligence community.[8] The office, eventually dismantled, was later criticized in Congress and the media for analysis that was contradicted by CIA analysis and investigations performed following the invasion of Iraq.

Sure fire winner.

 

[whitehall]

Hillary smooched Arafat more than her husband. Barry kissed the ass of every left wing tyrant on the planet and the left thinks Perry's meeting with Feith is news? Doesn't the left ever sleep in it's constant search for political minutia?

 

[Sallow]

So because Rick Perry is also a Governor of Texas, he is exactly like President Bush?

I guess that means that since Obama is also the President of the United States that he is exactly like President Bush too.

Oh wait... he is, just worse.

You even bother reading the OP?

 

[Dot Com]

So because Rick Perry is also a Governor of Texas, he is exactly like President Bush?

I guess that means that since Obama is also the President of the United States that he is exactly like President Bush too.

Oh wait... he is, just worse.

You even bother reading the OP?

That's what I was saying LOL

 

[Mad Scientist]

Like I would even THINK of voting for Algore's former campaign manager.

 

[Dot Com]

Like I would even THINK of voting for Algore's former campaign manager.

Good point. Wouldn't want a flip-flopper like Romney.

 

[EdSchultzIsFat]

Well Obama is a clone of "Buckwheat" and no real American wants 4 more years of that horsepoop economics. So what if Rick Perry talks like Bush. At least HE DOESN'T NEED A TELEPROMPTER!

 

[Dot Com]

Hillary smooched Arafat more than her husband. Barry kissed the ass of every left wing tyrant on the planet and the left thinks Perry's meeting with Feith is news? Doesn't the left ever sleep in it's constant search for political minutia?

 

[Political Junky]

Well Obama is a clone of "Buckwheat" and no real American wants 4 more years of that horsepoop economics. So what if Rick Perry talks like Bush. At least HE DOESN'T NEED A TELEPROMPTER!

You can't name a president who didn't use a teleprompter, in the last 20 years.
Make that any politician.

 

[JoeB131]

Went right over one righties head so far.

Douglas J. Feith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Feith joined the administration of President George W. Bush as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy in 2001. As part of his portfolio, he supervised the Pentagon Office of Special Plans, a group of policy and intelligence analysts created to provide senior government officials with raw intelligence, unvetted by the intelligence community.[8] The office, eventually dismantled, was later criticized in Congress and the media for analysis that was contradicted by CIA analysis and investigations performed following the invasion of Iraq.

Another quote from the "Hindsight is 20/20" choir.

Here's the thing. When we were actually INVADING Iraq, everyone thought it was a good idea. The Democrats, the Republicans, the Pentagon, the CIA, the media- everyone. Everyone was absolutely convinced Saddam was a bad man and had to go. Only kooks like Michael Moore said differently.

Half the Senate Democrats voted to give Bush the authority to go to war, including John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards. So did any Democrats in a marginal district. (only ones in "safe" districts voted against it.)

Yeah, after the thing dragged on for six years and everyone was tired of it, then people started trying to deny their culpability in the thing.

What we have here is a lot of finger-pointing after the fact.

Now, right now, Perry is leading my pick for the GOP nomination (Because I really, really despise Romney and think Bachmann is a few tacos short of a combination platter), but I would hope he wouldn't give the NeoCons access to our foriegn policy again. Even Bush started rejecting their advice by the end of his term.

 

[Sallow]

Well Obama is a clone of "Buckwheat" and no real American wants 4 more years of that horsepoop economics. So what if Rick Perry talks like Bush. At least HE DOESN'T NEED A TELEPROMPTER!

Nothing racist here.. move along..

 

[pete]

Dear Yankee :: Texas Monthly

 

[Moonglow]

Went right over one righties head so far.

Douglas J. Feith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Feith joined the administration of President George W. Bush as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy in 2001. As part of his portfolio, he supervised the Pentagon Office of Special Plans, a group of policy and intelligence analysts created to provide senior government officials with raw intelligence, unvetted by the intelligence community.[8] The office, eventually dismantled, was later criticized in Congress and the media for analysis that was contradicted by CIA analysis and investigations performed following the invasion of Iraq.

Another quote from the "Hindsight is 20/20" choir.

Here's the thing. When we were actually INVADING Iraq, everyone thought it was a good idea. The Democrats, the Republicans, the Pentagon, the CIA, the media- everyone. Everyone was absolutely convinced Saddam was a bad man and had to go. Only kooks like Michael Moore said differently.

Half the Senate Democrats voted to give Bush the authority to go to war, including John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards. So did any Democrats in a marginal district. (only ones in "safe" districts voted against it.)

Yeah, after the thing dragged on for six years and everyone was tired of it, then people started trying to deny their culpability in the thing.

What we have here is a lot of finger-pointing after the fact.

Now, right now, Perry is leading my pick for the GOP nomination (Because I really, really despise Romney and think Bachmann is a few tacos short of a combination platter), but I would hope he wouldn't give the NeoCons access to our foriegn policy again. Even Bush started rejecting their advice by the end of his term.

I didn't support the Iraq invasion.

 

[JimH52]

Well Obama is a clone of "Buckwheat" and no real American wants 4 more years of that horsepoop economics. So what if Rick Perry talks like Bush. At least HE DOESN'T NEED A TELEPROMPTER!

At least the Tea Party would be proud!

 

[JimH52]

Went right over one righties head so far.

Douglas J. Feith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Another quote from the "Hindsight is 20/20" choir.

Here's the thing. When we were actually INVADING Iraq, everyone thought it was a good idea. The Democrats, the Republicans, the Pentagon, the CIA, the media- everyone. Everyone was absolutely convinced Saddam was a bad man and had to go. Only kooks like Michael Moore said differently.

Half the Senate Democrats voted to give Bush the authority to go to war, including John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards. So did any Democrats in a marginal district. (only ones in "safe" districts voted against it.)

Yeah, after the thing dragged on for six years and everyone was tired of it, then people started trying to deny their culpability in the thing.

What we have here is a lot of finger-pointing after the fact.

Now, right now, Perry is leading my pick for the GOP nomination (Because I really, really despise Romney and think Bachmann is a few tacos short of a combination platter), but I would hope he wouldn't give the NeoCons access to our foriegn policy again. Even Bush started rejecting their advice by the end of his term.

I didn't support the Iraq invasion.

It was totally logical for a recovering alcoholic to assume that he could start two wars and pair that with a huge tax cut for the wealthy. It made a lot of sense to W and DICK.

 

[oldsalt]

Hillary smooched Arafat more than her husband. Barry kissed the ass of every left wing tyrant on the planet and the left thinks Perry's meeting with Feith is news? Doesn't the left ever sleep in it's constant search for political minutia?

Does the baggercon party HAVE anything BUT minutia?????

 

[JoeB131]

I didn't support the Iraq invasion.

the point is the leaders of your party did. Some long before Bush ever got there. And they were cheering all along until the body bags started coming back.

Hey, I'm not a doctrinaire conservative. I think Bush did a lot of things wrong. He didn't listen to his generals on troop numbers, he left commanders who weren't getting results in command, etc. Disbanding the Iraqi Army was a huge mistake.

But I get tired of the notion that democrats had no culpability. There were none of these guys who were willing to say, "I think this is so wrong that I am going to throw away my political career to oppose it when it's popular." Never happened. And the only Democrat who was held to any account for his support was Joe Liebermann, because he kept on supporting it. (And even then, he ran as an independent and kept on serving.)

I think a lot of these guys figured that it would be over in a year and they could go back to bashing Bush on other things, just like they did with his Dad in the first Gulf War.