What Doug Feith Left Off His New Website

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Doug Feith, the former undersecretary of defense who helped set up the Pentagon operation that stovepiped bad intel about WMD and Saddam-Al Qaeda links to the White House, has been trying to clear his name recently. Now he says he was just asking “tough questions” about the CIA’s work, not trying to peddle bogus theories to justify an invasion of Iraq. Just a skeptical public servant holding those in power accountable. And if you believe that, I have a war to sell you. Feith’s latest effort in name-clearing is a website that promises to challenge the “media myths” and offers glowing quotes about his character from Donald Rumsfeld and General Peter Pace. Funny, but Feith has conspicuously left off what’s probably the most memorable quote about him by a military man he used to work with. Here, let us fix that:

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