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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (1273)	1/27/2005 11:33:12 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224706

I suppose the following is, as usual, according to your yardstick, just a crock ........., eh? -------------------------------------- Pentagons chief architect of Iraq war resigns 1/27/2005 10:30:00 AM GMT Middle East Advertising by AlClick Advertise Here Douglas Feith, one of the chief architects for the U.S. led invasion of Iraq Douglas Feith, the U.S. Defense Department's top policy officer and one of the chief architects of the American -led invasion of Iraq announced that he'll step down from his position in the summer due to personal and family reasons. The Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld praised the outgoing under-secretary of defense policy saying that he contributed to American security. As Rumsfeld's top policy adviser, Feith represented the Pentagon in interagency forums in which national security policy is made. In a statement Rumsfeld said, Feith "is creative, well organized and energetic, and he has earned the respect of civilian and military leaders across the government. Before the Iraq war, Feith oversaw Pentagon officials who critics accused of selectively using uncorroborated intelligence reports to build the false case of President Saddam Hussein having stockpiles of banned deadly weapons. Feith's team also built up the case of the Iraqi government's ties with al Qaeda; also proven to be false. He was also blamed for overseeing what is widely considered by U.S. officials to have been inadequate postwar planning. Eric Ruff, a spokesman for the Defense Department said that Feith's planned departure had nothing to do with policy matters and that he would go on working on "big-ticket" issues until his departure. These "big-ticket" issues include the U.S.-declared "war on terrorism", the development of a new U.S. global defense posture and the Quadrennial Defense Review, a Pentagon planning tool redone every four years. The Pentagon's chief spokesman Larry DiRita said that Rumsfeld encourages his top aides to give early notice of any departure plans. Even with the departure of Feith, Rumsfeld's core team, which includes Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, one of the officials closely associated with the decision to go to war in Iraq, was staying largely intact at the Pentagon, DiRita said. Army General Tommy Franks, the retired chief of U.S. Central Command, took a shot at Feith in his autobiography, "American Soldier." He wrote that Feith was "getting a reputation around here as the dumbest ... guy on the planet." Feith is the highest-ranked Pentagon official to leave the Bush administration.