Friday, 21 November, 2003

Fantasy Camp A few additions to my repost to William Safire's NY Times Opinion column. In my reply to point 8 I wanted to add a comment I remembered from some General, or Colonel that on the day that Bremer (on Doug Feith's orders), dismissed the entire Iraqi army with no further pay or pension, the U S made 400(500) thousand enemies we didn't have the day before. I wanted to try to find attribution for that statement, but haven't so far. The Washington Post did run an article in yesterdays paper, pointing to that action as one of the pivotal moments in this affair Wrong Turn at a Postwar Crossroads? (washingtonpost.com). The Post also ran a second column on the Weekly Standards article derived from Feith's leaked memo. Newsweek took up this story as well Case Decidedly Not Closed The former editor of Washington's city paper advises us; however, to suspend judgement for now Case Open - Why is the press avoiding the Weekly Standard's intelligence scoop? By Jack Shafer After 35 years under the repressive tyrannical one party rule of the baathist in Iraq it was fantasy to suppose that the country could be run with out recourse to individuals and institutions touched by the baathists, but it was a fantasy some in the current administration have tried to impose. The Boston Globe did a piece on Feith about a month ago, lost forever inside their pay-for-play archive, (BUSH AIDE UNDER FIRE AS IRAQI RECONSTRUCTION LURCHES October 19, 2003 Bryan Bender, Globe Correspondent, and Stephen J. Glain,Globe Staff) which makes clear that he is acting on long and firmly held idea's and is not likely to change as long as he holds office. 9:58:41 AM    comment [];trackback [];

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