I love straightforward journalism, even like to do it myself now and then. Al Kamen has a good column in the Washington Post on Doug Feith chickening out from testifying before a House Judiciary subcommittee because Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff, would be there.
[Feith's lawyer John Moustakas wrote in a letter to the committee that] he'd been assured his client would
testify "in an atmosphere free from the vitriol and ad hominem attacks
that have regrettably dominated the debate."… Moustakas said that in 2006 Wilkerson accused Feith of being a "'card-carrying member of the Likud party' whose allegiance is to Israel rather than the United States."
(Actually, according to writer George Packer's book "The Assassins'
Gate," it was Powell who made that allegation to President Bush in the Oval Office in January 2005.)
Couple comments. Wonderful that the issue of dual allegiance is broached in the Post. Let's talk about it (let's interview Grant Smith about A Clean Break). And Feith's attitude suggests again to me how hunted the neocons feel. I observed this first in Bill Kristol's appearance at Yivo. The man is afraid, feels hunted. I feel some sympathy: these are plainly genuine feelings in both Feith and Kristol. Maybe Holocaust-rooted, they believe antisemitism is at the heart of it. Obviously I've contributed to that hunting climate. I do so because this war is the greatest disaster of our lifetimes, and there must be accountability. This is America, we're not going to shoot them. Just deprive them of their prestige sinecures. They can keep the sinecures even. Just lose the influence.
Since when depriving mass murderers of their prestige sinecures is considered accountability?
In the land of entitlement, the USA.
" Just lose the influence."Today wouldn't be soon enough.A bag of scandals.Poisoned many a soul, by perverting peoples loyalties to their country.It will take a miracle of religious proportions to recover from this administration.And they still have time to do more damage!
Nail the PNAC crew with the 'Clean Break'!
Good job Weiss!
…and oh keep reading my blog :-)
"Obviously I've contributed to that hunting climate. I do so because this war is the greatest disaster of our lifetimes, and there must be accountability. This is America, we're not going to shoot them."
Shooting intellectuals? Naw, that's something that only happens in the secured realm of post-Saddam Babylon
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jwKod7kk-RZNOMW-ynNq6-AS-t4g
This just in:
In a further dispatch posted at 5:15pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed men shot and killed a university professor and wounded two of his children in northern Mosul, 420km northwest of Baghdad, on Sunday.
Scholar Douglas Feith was unharmed in the attack.
Who says we aren't going to shoot them?
I think a firing squad is very appropiate for the likes of Feith and Kristol.
If someone assassinated that whole Cheney-neo-zio cabal you would hear a whole lot of cheering.
Just deport them to Israel.
A fitting punishment.
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JUST KILL THEM ALL AND LET ME JUDGE
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I agree the Zionist neocons should be deported to Israel–they can wear a sign on their back saying: "Traitors."