Comments on: Everything You Know Is Wrong

By: Fielding Mellish

Fielding Mellish — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:56:26 +0000

Next up: Giovanni Gentile’s completely neutral account of what it was like to work with Benito Mussolini.

By: dgbellak

dgbellak — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:05:00 +0000

Yes, it was Franks.

By: Rheinhard

Rheinhard — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:45:50 +0000

Although I’m not Wan, I’m happy to lend a hand.

http://www.slate.com/id/2100899/

http://www.slate.com/id/2099277/

Tommy Franks, quotation in Bob Woodward’s “Plan of Attack”, p. 281.

You might also care to peruse this.

By: Sadly, No! Research Labs

Sadly, No! Research Labs — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:42:11 +0000

Oh, we’ve got a link to it.

Good lord. Feith?!

By: Wan

Wan — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:38:33 +0000

Here you go, this is the first link I found when I googled “Douglas Feith” and “stupidest”:

http://www.slate.com/id/2100899/

By: Gaius

Gaius — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 04:25:58 +0000

Wan, that does not sound like anything Franks would say. But if you have proof that was said – by someone – provide a link.

By: Wan

Wan — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 04:20:12 +0000

Let’s be a bit more honest here. You, as well as anyone, know that Douglas Feith is one of the neocons clique that pursued and botched the Iraq war. I’m too lazy to google this, but one of the prominent generals (Tommy Franks?) have been quoted saying Douglas Feith is the stupidest person he has ever known.

This defense of Rumsfeld character is as good as written by his mom.

By: Bill Franklin

Bill Franklin — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 23:52:17 +0000

Adelman tells a different story, and has known and worked with Rummy nine times longer than Feith:

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/061120ta_talk_goldberg

Adelman’s account comes off as much more genuine than Feith’s, but perhaps it’s two sides of the same coin. I’ve heard too many reports to believe Feith’s assertion that Rumsfeld didn’t ignore the advice of advisers. Adelman makes it quite clear he did.