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Thanks, Carly. Obviously, "jd" didn't get the "stop foaming at the mouth" memo! By the way, jd, would you mind filling me in on who "Leornard" is and what connection he has to either Brian Lehrer or Douglas Feith? I'm glad to hear that you are magnanimous enough to allow the "Republican nut jobs a fair hearing". I agree with you that an interviewer who challenges the conclusions and premise of his guest makes for a good show. I think that Brian did just that in this interview. The comment that I made was about my perception that he is considerably less challenging if the guest has a view more in line with his own.

Tisk Tisk. Leornard didn't call him on the pipe dream of installing Chalabi as President or, in the event of a democracy, the obvious consequences of a Shia dominated government.

Good to give the Republican nut jobs a fair hearing, but the intellectual joust in return was missing.

Well said AA

One gets the distinct felling that the Bush/Feith
haters couldn't are a whit about Iraq per se...

but any excuse to foam at the mouth against republicans, for many, just can't be missed

more reasoned discussion and less rabid venom would be welcome

The vitriol is truly overpowering! Brian’s biases were clearly evident from the questioning—which I nonetheless thought did hold Feith’s “feet to the fire". I would never expect the same curiosity from Brian had the guest been someone who wrote a book that was, on balance, critical of the Bush Administration. That being said, I think it was GK Chesterton who once said something about a weak mind magnifying trifling things, much like a microscope, but not being able to see the obvious. So many of the posted comments here reflect the “Bush lied, people died” mentality of the posters—clouding even the possibility of a contrary conclusion.
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
-Aristotle

HJS, they were wrong.

I can't believe that the neocons are still given any serious consideration in the media. They have been absolutely wrong about EVERYTHING regarding this mess we're in.

THis guy is so disorganized. Feet held to the fire, in this interview I can smell the burning flesh.

truth
i've said that on this board (bout the slaves)and was told i did not know what i was talking about and i should read a book.

I think I agree with Tommy Franks regarding Feith.

You can call him a liar, but he is spot on about the reasons or the lack of for the Iraq war.

You can hear him a-shuckin' and a-jivin'. Unfortunately this is not surprising. Perhaps a million Iraqis dead and "we have no quarrel with the Iraqi people". The administration's motives for the war were "not to spread democracy"???? Revisionist history to the max.

(and Yes I know this is a re-run)

Finally someone verbalizes the correct reason for the civil war and lincolns intent!

Had nothing to do with Lincoln freeing the slaves!

It's painful to hear this guy's self denial all over again.

He's gagging on his own lies. How can he sleep at night?

Could this guy stumble and stammer any more??? He doesn't even believe what he's saying. Talk about trying to re-write history. I'm so saddened.

wow I only hope someday there are indictments. I can hear the fear in his voice.

Ugh. The historical re-writing commences.

Hold Doug Feith's feet to the fire and stop deleting my comments

It is staggering that this dissembler is even allowed a forum in which to continue his pathology! His attempts to rewrite history and dismiss the rosy lead-up language is stunning. Stunning.

This is an idealogue who is incapable of self-reflectiong, much less telling the truth.