Iraq: "We'll all be home by Christmas" ... Keeping The "Feith"

Douglas Feith, former Undersecretary of Defense and an architect of the Iraq war, appeared on the Brian Lehrer radio show on Tuesday and claimed that the American people "weren't told" the war would be easy "by the administration. Absolutely not."



When Lehrer played a 2003 clip of Vice President Dick Cheney claiming U.S. troops would "be greeted as liberators," Feith dismissed it as "one of the more optimistic comments" but claimed that others, "especially" former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, "were a lot more reserved than that."

In fact, the entire administration and its allies declared repeatedly the war would be quick and painless, including Rumsfeld, who said the Iraqi people "will be enormously relieved and liberated" and claimed the war could last "six days, six weeks, I doubt six months." Cheney said the war would take "weeks rather than months," and then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said that the U.S. will not "need to maintain a military presence in Iraq as was the case in Europe" after World War II.

It looks like Feith can add “lying” to the list of his post-White House activities.

The dishonesty and incompetence of these people does an injustice to the amazing work being done by the US Military in Iraq.