Before the start of the Iraq war, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gave the Bush administration a "list of horribles" that could go wrong, a former top Pentagon official says.
Douglas Feith - in trying to settle scores in his new book, "War and Decision" - said last night that he was disclosing the list to rebut arguments that President Bush and Rumsfeld went to war without considering the consequences.
I'm suddenly reminded of a memorable quote from the Mystery Science movie...
...[after breaching the hull in an escape attempt]
Crow T. Robot: Well believe me, Mike, I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid... and I went ahead anyway.
(we sincerely apologize to all Crow enthusiasts out there who are offended by this thoughtless comparison to such vile, lying daydreamers. We at dragon/Buddha respect the comic Mr. T. Robot, and it is not our intention to slight his character in any way. Thank you again and enjoy the rest of this post.)
A former policy chief, Feith said on CBS' "60 Minutes" Sunday night that the list of what could go wrong included weapons of mass destruction, no link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, and the possibility of ethnic strife spreading.
What they're not telling you (per Lionel Beehner of the HPost):
Feith was especially keen on proving a link existed between Saddam and al-Qaeda while over-hyping Iraqi links with Niger on the sale of yellowcake uranium and a supposed meeting in Prague between Mohammad Atta and an Iraqi spook.
And that list of what could go wrong? As you can see in this Crooks and Liars post...
Literally every single one of these has come to fruition.
The "downsides of the war," Feith said, had to be weighed against a "list of the risks involved in leaving Saddam in power."
Which were...?
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