Douglas J. Feith is the neocon’s neocon.  He’s a bloodthirsty little shitbag and Iraq war promoter.  He worked as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy until he quit in August 2005.  He still thinks Saddam and Osama were buddies.  And, for some reason, Georgetown pays him money to spread this nonsense.

And now he’s written a book.  More after the jump.

In the first insider account of Pentagon decision-making on Iraq, one of the key architects of the war blasts former secretary of state Colin Powell, the CIA, retired Gen. Tommy R. Franks and former Iraq occupation chief L. Paul Bremer for mishandling the run-up to the invasion and the subsequent occupation of the country.

Douglas J. Feith, in a massive score-settling work, portrays an intelligence community and a State Department that repeatedly undermined plans he developed as undersecretary of defense for policy and conspired to undercut President Bush’s policies.

And Feith tells us something we all knew:

Among the disclosures made by Feith in “War and Decision,” scheduled for release next month by HarperCollins, is Bush’s declaration, at a Dec. 18, 2002, National Security Council meeting, that “war is inevitable.” The statement came weeks before U.N. weapons inspectors reported their initial findings on Iraq and months before Bush delivered an ultimatum to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Feith, who says he took notes at the meeting, registered it as a “momentous comment.” 

Hell, Paul O’Neill said the Boy King and the Dark Lord had made up their minds on Iraq before 9/11.

Although he acknowledges “serious errors” in intelligence, policy and operational plans surrounding the invasion, Feith blames them on others outside the Pentagon and notes that “even the best planning” cannot avoid all problems in wartime. While he says the decision to invade was correct, he judges that the task of creating a viable and stable Iraqi government was poorly executed and remains “grimly incomplete.”

No one could have predicted that a Bush administration official wouldn’t take responsibility for all the death and destruction they’ve caused.

Doug Feith releases memoir blaming everyone else for the Iraq War [democraticunderground.com]