tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post7987394680194853157..comments2024-01-09T15:21:52.135-08:00Comments on Sayet Right: Born in the USA -- Why Springsteen Endorsed ObamaEvan Sayethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15989761214143022432noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-14729565157263336932008-05-11T18:03:00.000-07:002008-05-11T18:03:00.000-07:00Evan, a very good post. It reminded me of Springs...Evan, a very good post. It reminded me of Springsteen's opening of "The River" from the "Live 1975 – 85" CD's. Here is a link to it (at the bottom of the page):<BR/><A HREF="http://www.rune-it.dk/springsteen.htm" REL="nofollow">http://www.rune-it.dk/springsteen.htm</A><BR/><BR/>...and here is an excerpt: <BR/><BR/><I>“When I was growin’ up me and my dad used to go at it all the time, over almost anything. I used to have really long hair, way down past my shoulders. I was 17 or 18, oh man he used to hate it. And we got to where we’d fight so much that I’d spend a lot of time out of the house. And in the summertime it wasn’t so bad, ‘cause it was warm and your friends were out, but in the winter... I remember standin’ down town and it would get so cold. And, when the wind would blow I had this phone booth I used to stand in. And I used to call my girl, like for hours at a time, just talkin’ to her all night long. And finally I’d get my nerve up to go home, and I’d stand there in the driveway, and he’d be waitin’ for me in the kitchen. And I’d tuck my hair down into my collar, and I’d walk in, and he’d call me back to sit down with him... And the first thing he’d always ask me was; “What did I think I was doin’ with my self”? And the worst part about it, was that I could never explain it to him... <BR/>I remember I got in a motorcycle accident once, and I was laid op in bed and he had a barber come in and cut my hair... And man... I can remember tellin’ him that I hated him, and that I would never ever forget it. <BR/>And he used to tell me; “Man I can’t wait till the army gets you. When the army gets you, they’re gonna’ make a man out of you. They’re gonna’ cut all that hair of and they’ll make a man out of you”. </I><BR/>See the link for an audio of the whole thing.<BR/><BR/>Part of it is Bruce didn't think he measured up to what his parents wanted. I have a close relative who is an alcoholic and I've learned a lot about some of the causes of problems that sometimes lead to addiction. (I want to be careful with my words as it can get complicated.)<BR/><BR/>I have seen many, many people who are addicts reach back in time to their childhood. I used to laugh when I’d see references to childhood as a source of problems for people, but it is true. Seemingly small things can have a big effect on one's life. Simple actions or inactions are powerful. Many kids want to know that their parents approve of them and what they are doing. They not only want to know, they have to know. It doesn’t take much to screw up a person. So the kid who kept looking for cues from his father that his father was proud of him (and never saw them) can grow up with feelings of abandonment. There are many, many examples. I’m not a psychologist, but how we treat kids as parents has a HUGE bearing on the future. Yes, it’s obvious. This is why two parent homes that are stable tend to produce more stable people. It’s not in every case, but most cases.<BR/><BR/>I bring up this addictions analogy because one of things addicts do is go into denial. Time and time again, alcoholics claim they don’t have a problem. Even after crashing cars, many of them will ignore it. Well, part of the definition of addiction is doing something without much regard for the consequences. I know some woman whose husband was steadfast that he did not have a drinking problem. I think he was on his 3rd or 4th DUI and the judge gave him a choice of going through an addiction program for alcoholics or jail time in Cook County Jail in Chicago. He took jail. The power of this delusion is immense.<BR/><BR/>To me, I see the same mechanisms working with Modern Liberals. They will throw anything and everything under the bus to stay in their little world that Evan describes in his video. So even though we know that we need oil, they will fight everything about it because it helps people be successful. They talk about being for the poor, but it’s the poor who suffer most from their programs. Their desire to make everything equal is like an addiction. <BR/><BR/>At some level, they know that leaving Iraq would cause big problems, but they don’t and can’t care. When we left Vietnam, besides the communists, Pol Pot came to power and millions died. Modern Liberals are in denial and ignore this information.<BR/><BR/>As Evan says in his video, for just about every issue, they are driven to make things “equal” despite the consequences. We could see this in action when the president of Iran, Ahmadinejad, spoke in NY and talked about gays. He was very pointed in being against gays and talking about how they are dealt with. Now, where was the outrage from the gay lobby? I didn’t see any outrage! Why? Because the gays that run the organizations are Modern Liberals and they will throw themselves under the bus so they can get to Bush. To them, it’s more important to get to Bush (because Ahmadinejad is a way for them to get at Bush) and what Bush represents to force things to be “equal.” (I’m guessing that the gays who are not Modern Liberals were really mad wondering why their leaders were so silent.) In other words, their denial is so strong that they’ll throw their own cause under the bus if it means getting at Bush and Western Civilization.<BR/><BR/>I just remembered: There is another song opening where Bruce refers to not measuring up. In one of the "Growing Up" openings he talks about mother wanting him to be <BR/><BR/>Go to the bottom of this page:<BR/><A HREF="http://www.springsteenlyrics.com/lyrics/g/growinup16.php" REL="nofollow">http://www.springsteenlyrics.com/lyrics/g/growinup16.php</A><BR/><I>"...my father always said 'you know, you should be a lawyer. You know, you get, get a little something for yourself.' You know? And my mother, you know, she used to say 'no, no, no, no. He should be, he should be an author. He should write books. You know, you should... That's a good life, you can get a little something for yourself."</I> <BR/><BR/>So both of his parents were hitting him with going to a more traditional livelihood - which has been a big burden on him over the years.<BR/><BR/>Evan, thank you for the hard work and guidance. I think we are cracking the code of this mental illness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-84212098835458258672008-05-05T09:03:00.000-07:002008-05-05T09:03:00.000-07:00IMO this here explanation seems to cover many more...IMO this here explanation seems to cover many more shades of meaning to the song Born in the USA than all the quotation marks Evan has used above. <BR/>http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1014<BR/><BR/>A song written for soldiers dealing with reality is my take on it. Since I am a soldier and have talked to many, many soldiers I think I might have a better view on that than Evan does.<BR/><BR/>Evan and I shared ideas in another forum recently until I brought up too many facts.<BR/>You know... not name calling and silly misspelled names for effect but actual facts! Why did Eli Lilly (HUGE corporation) get a clause in the Homeland Security Act meant to protect all U.S. citizens. Stuff like that.<BR/>Hmmm... Evan quit responding when the facts came out.<BR/><BR/>To Evan: I say thanks for the lesson in communication with a cut and paste from another great musician:<BR/>Ani Difranco: As Is--- (It’s not hollywood but a real performer performing, and from personal experience I KNOW performing is work)<BR/>you can't hide <BR/>behind social graces<BR/>so don't try<BR/>to be all touchy feely<BR/>cuz you lie <BR/>in my face of all places<BR/>but i've got no<BR/>problem with that really<BR/><BR/>what bugs me<BR/>is that you believe what you're saying<BR/>what bothers me <BR/>is that you don't know how you feel<BR/>what scares me<BR/>is that while you're telling me stories<BR/>you actually<BR/>believe that they are real<BR/><BR/>and i've got<BR/>no illusions about you<BR/>and guess what?<BR/>i never did<BR/>and when i said<BR/>when i said i'll take it<BR/>i meant, <BR/>i meant as is<BR/><BR/>just give up<BR/>and admit you're an asshole<BR/>you would be<BR/>in some good company<BR/>i think you'd find<BR/>that your friends would forgive you<BR/>or maybe i<BR/>am just speaking for me<BR/><BR/>cuz when i look around<BR/>i think this, this is good enough<BR/>and i try to laugh<BR/>at whatever life brings<BR/>cuz when i look down<BR/>i just miss all the good stuff<BR/>when i look up<BR/>i just trip over things<BR/><BR/>and i've got<BR/>no illusions about you...HEYOKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08977257375361038670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-77617191045461563762008-05-04T08:38:00.000-07:002008-05-04T08:38:00.000-07:00The venom in comments on Mr. Sayet's writing needs...The venom in comments on Mr. Sayet's writing needs to be addressed. The pattern is: someone expresses an opinion, then someone who disagrees will attack the person's intelligence, courage, character, etc. <BR/>Americans have been polarized into sides being pitted against each other. Who could possibly want our country to destroy itself this way?<BR/>Hmm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-7049274100623290412008-05-02T16:46:00.000-07:002008-05-02T16:46:00.000-07:00What astounds me about this post is that, to me, i...What astounds me about this post is that, to me, it appears that you've completely overlooked the working class citizen who has been run roughshod by NAFTA. <BR/><BR/>Incidentally, the reason he was writing about economic misery in 1995 was that there was a little economic policy in 1994 called--you guessed it!--NAFTA.<BR/><BR/>It's really no wonder that you missed this, especially after seeing how much fear and hate you try to stir up against Barack Obama...because as another great leader once said about ignorance:<BR/><BR/>"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."<BR/>--<I>Martin Luther King, Jr.</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-83669727935861450192008-05-01T20:28:00.000-07:002008-05-01T20:28:00.000-07:00Absolutely brilliant comparison, and spot on. Nice...Absolutely brilliant comparison, and spot on. <BR/><BR/>Nice crop of flaming troll ya got here. Want mine?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04857256432575107386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-32844257833040828902008-05-01T06:19:00.000-07:002008-05-01T06:19:00.000-07:00Kewanio Che Keekeru, Evan!<I>Kewanio Che Keekeru, Evan!</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-6979322473057122342008-04-30T08:48:00.000-07:002008-04-30T08:48:00.000-07:00Promethea, Nice blog...you have as much to say the...Promethea, Nice blog...you have as much to say there as this dude does, but do it with greater economy of language. You manage to hide your stupidity by keeping your mouth shut...good plan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-89354560750203758642008-04-30T08:43:00.000-07:002008-04-30T08:43:00.000-07:00Why Springsteen Edorsed Obama.He's not a moron?Why Springsteen Edorsed Obama.<BR/><BR/>He's not a moron?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-6623988083613837852008-04-29T21:58:00.000-07:002008-04-29T21:58:00.000-07:00Now that I've read all the comments, I see that mo...Now that I've read all the comments, I see that most of the childish people are named "anonymous" except for that one hubble person. There are some commenters who recognize that you make a lot of sense.Prometheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08248933576149092156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-45604180641969128672008-04-29T21:47:00.000-07:002008-04-29T21:47:00.000-07:00Terrific post, Evan.Now I'll read all the comments...Terrific post, Evan.<BR/><BR/>Now I'll read all the comments to see why you're a "dunce" (peeking at #1).<BR/><BR/>My question to you is: Why does your blog attract so many losers? Your writing is very clear and to the point. You always make sense. Yet so many of the people who comment here are just plain nuts.<BR/><BR/>Maybe this thread will be different.Prometheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08248933576149092156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-65627447576580010652008-04-29T18:46:00.000-07:002008-04-29T18:46:00.000-07:00See, Evan was at this Republican party (yawn)...in...See, Evan was at this Republican party (yawn)...in a corner, wide stance, foot tapping in time to "Born in the USA," engaging some young, quite young I'm told, man. And, the brighter of the two conservatives (He's now a Democrat and openly gay), and I use the term loosely, informed Evan that, "Hey, no man, that song aint about what you think it is." Evan was shocked, so I'm told. His eyes bulged, his mouth gaped (Well, that's how he usually looks, right?) and, for a moment, he went into shock. Then he proceeded to break all of his Bruce Springsteen CDs and never, ever liked him again. And, that's the truth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-85336762509314763432008-04-28T10:48:00.000-07:002008-04-28T10:48:00.000-07:00The Air Force has bought into the climate hoax!!! ...The Air Force has bought into the climate hoax!!! How can that be? They will vitiate our military. <I>The US air force will this week call for the world's top scientists to come together in a 21st-century Apollo-style programme to develop greener fuels and tackle global warming. It wants universities, governments, companies and environmental groups to collaborate on a multibillion-dollar effort to work out greenhouse gas emissions of existing and future fuels. <BR/><BR/>William Anderson, an assistant secretary of the air force, said the project aimed to calculate the overall carbon footprint of the world's energy sources, rather than merely measure their direct emissions. <BR/><BR/></I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-29777766844269276632008-04-28T09:47:00.000-07:002008-04-28T09:47:00.000-07:00Corporate crime is often violent crime.Recite this...<I>Corporate crime is often violent crime.<BR/><BR/>Recite this list of corporate frauds and people will immediately say to you: but you can't compare street crime and corporate crime – corporate crime is not violent crime.<BR/><BR/>Not true.<BR/><BR/>Corporate crime is often violent crime.<BR/><BR/>The FBI estimates that, 16,000 Americans are murdered every year.<BR/><BR/>Compare this to the 56,000 Americans who die every year on the job or from occupational diseases such as black lung and asbestosis and the tens of thousands of other Americans who fall victim to the silent violence of pollution, contaminated foods, hazardous consumer products, and hospital malpractice.<BR/><BR/>These deaths are often the result of criminal recklessness. Yet, they are rarely prosecuted as homicides or as criminal violations of federal laws.<BR/></I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-57383172672759171462008-04-27T17:56:00.000-07:002008-04-27T17:56:00.000-07:00Corporate crime inflicts far more damage on societ...<I>Corporate crime inflicts far more damage on society than all street crime combined.<BR/><BR/>Whether in bodies or injuries or dollars lost, corporate crime and violence wins by a landslide. <BR/><BR/>The FBI estimates, for example, that burglary and robbery – street crimes – costs the nation $3.8 billion a year.<BR/><BR/>The losses from a handful of major corporate frauds – Tyco, Adelphia, Worldcom, Enron – swamp the losses from all street robberies and burglaries combined. <BR/><BR/>Health care fraud alone costs Americans $100 billion to $400 billion a year.<BR/><BR/>The savings and loan fraud – which former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh called "the biggest white collar swindle in history" – cost us anywhere from $300 billion to $500 billion.<BR/><BR/>And then you have your lesser frauds: auto repair fraud, $40 billion a year, securities fraud, $15 billion a year – and on down the list.<BR/><BR/></I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-78196809315298910682008-04-27T14:50:00.000-07:002008-04-27T14:50:00.000-07:00I'm sure Springsteen LOVES working men and women. ...I'm sure Springsteen LOVES working men and women. After all somebody's gotta clean his house, wash his clothes and mow his lawn.<BR/><BR/>And then he charges then their days wages to listen to him sing.<BR/><BR/>He loves the working men and women of America.<BR/><BR/>He just can't help but admit to himself that they're a bunch of chumps and suckers...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-54215813287863579202008-04-27T07:26:00.000-07:002008-04-27T07:26:00.000-07:00I've never even thought of that, but there IS a ne...I've never even thought of that, but there IS a negative sense of the working class Springsteen sings about! He's touted as speaking up for the working man, but when you don't respect what he's doing, when those jobs need doing and somebody's got to do it, why's that not okay?<BR/>Does everyone have to be Bill Gates or Donald Trump?<BR/>I never thought of that, and I think you're right, Evan.<BR/>The disdain the Left has for anyone who really works a hard, honest day of work is sad. I guess it's based on "You don't want to do THAT! you want the government to make your life PERFECT!"<BR/>brilliant. Of course Springsteen would endorse a socialist who wants to GIVE us everything from the back of those who have worked hard and succeeded.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-36900173554748850472008-04-26T21:26:00.000-07:002008-04-26T21:26:00.000-07:00Dear Mr. Fatneck,I can't thank you enough for what...Dear Mr. Fatneck,<BR/><BR/>I can't thank you enough for what you've done. After reading your presentation about the unions about 6 times, I believe I've fully internalized what you were teaching.<BR/><BR/>You've given me a new facet to view the right wing mind. Now when I have to debate them, I axes that the kindergarten debaters (i.e. those which have no better way to respond other than "Well, so what, you are a doodooHead!") leave the room.<BR/><BR/>And guess what? No one is left.<BR/><BR/>Just like the RomperRoom rightisss leaving comments here. What is the core of their argument? "You are a doodooHead!"<BR/><BR/>Thank you, sir, for furthering the opening of my eyes. Surely you know that God's gift to you is the ability to teach what is going on in the world through a brilliant lens. <BR/><BR/>Don't stop. <BR/><BR/>Bless you! Bless you to heaven?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-32144714515775666182008-04-26T12:15:00.000-07:002008-04-26T12:15:00.000-07:00I comes to watchem do da zombie, yeah, night and d...I comes to watchem do da zombie, yeah, night and day, do da voodoo shake. Not much shakin, tho, 2day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-22189279090915490792008-04-26T11:26:00.000-07:002008-04-26T11:26:00.000-07:00My granddaddy fought Ford at River Rouge and my da...My granddaddy fought Ford at River Rouge and my daddy was one of those corrupt labor bosses in Butte, Montana... I wish you could tell them all about the labor movement you simple little twat. They'd spit your weak, whored out little ass out on the street. Touching the way you boys like sucking corporate dick, though...you're all versions of Stockholm Syndrome sufferers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-3868766798939484472008-04-26T11:17:00.000-07:002008-04-26T11:17:00.000-07:00The "labor" movement has always been a movement AG...<I>The "labor" movement has always been a movement AGAINST 'actual labor'.<BR/></I><BR/><BR/>Haha...the things these morons have to tell themselves... he doesn't know about the company store, child labor, the 16 hr day,the slave wages and the mutilations and deaths in the factories and mines before the labor movement came along. Now, we're going back that way again...maybe he'll get an enlightening glimpse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-7184104541460327662008-04-26T10:53:00.000-07:002008-04-26T10:53:00.000-07:00The "labor" movement has always been a movement AG...The "labor" movement has always been a movement AGAINST 'actual labor'.<BR/><BR/>The need to bring it up to data and call it what it is... the "welfare" movement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-62289472554224455322008-04-25T19:44:00.000-07:002008-04-25T19:44:00.000-07:00I bet myself that the UBER-RETARD "Anonymouse" wou...I bet myself that the <BR/>UBER-RETARD "Anonymouse" would be the first to comment. Well..... Geez Evan, thanks for finally deigning to write! Anonymouse was languishing in utter BLOG- PURGATORY. S/he/it (God only knows the gender, but it seems post-menopausally haggish) was going through veritable ANTI-EVAN WITHDRAWLS. It lives for you and your writing--kind of like a prose-addicted tapeworm. It feeds off every word you utter--carefully masticating each of your sentences; gorging itself on your deliciously forbidden prose. When turgid with your words, it then bursts, spewing undigested invective everywhere. As your thoughts are too rich for its primitive constitution, it then has a bad case of the comment-runs, hopelessly defecating its loose mind all over your column. Many of us wishing to post, must then wade through its ubiquitous mental dung-fest, furiously down-scrolling until white space is achieved! It's quite fun, actually. I wouldn't miss it for anything!Morguish Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10950451182826455014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-9498581691647973652008-04-25T17:42:00.000-07:002008-04-25T17:42:00.000-07:00Oh, (a)nonnie, just because Reagan and Dole errant...<I>Oh, (a)nonnie, just because Reagan and Dole errantly tried to appropriate "Born in the U.S.A.," doesn't change the anti-American lyrics. </I><BR/><BR/>Goopball telling us the GOP was too stupid to know they were using anti-American material. And that there have been no probs for the working class since the Joads went west. Dumber than hell? Of course.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-61898068329325862792008-04-25T16:11:00.000-07:002008-04-25T16:11:00.000-07:00Not to mention Devils and Dust, AKA recycling the ...Not to mention Devils and Dust, AKA recycling the same tired Joad cliches, came out during yet another period of tremendous economic growth. Bruce, nothing if not predictable. "Radio Nowhere" definitely kicks ass, though.<BR/><BR/>Oh, (a)nonnie, just because Reagan and Dole errantly tried to appropriate "Born in the U.S.A.," doesn't change the anti-American lyrics. As bad as Wrangler trying to "patriotize" the "Ooh, the red, white and blue" line from "Fortunate Son" a few years ago? Well, yeah, actually.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7938318.post-35266965140215956782008-04-25T11:40:00.000-07:002008-04-25T11:40:00.000-07:00Iraq war architect blames everyone else for Iraq w...Iraq war architect blames everyone else for Iraq war...<BR/><BR/>The man who led the office that supplied the Bush Administration with "raw intelligence" on Iraq now says everyone else is to blame but himself.<BR/><BR/>Douglas Feith, President Bush's former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, headed the Office of Special Plans, a secretive outfit which passed along unverified "alternative" intelligence to Administration decisionmakers in the run up to war.<BR/><BR/>A Senate Intelligence Committee report found that the Office "developed, produced, and then disseminated alternative intelligence assessments on the Iraq and al Qaida relationship, which included some conclusions that were inconsistent with the consensus of the Intelligence Community, to senior decision-makers."<BR/><BR/>In other words, they passed on "intelligence" that was never vetted, much of which appeared to align with a hawkish Administration agenda.<BR/><BR/>On Thursday, Feith pointed his finger at everyone but himself regarding the war in Iraq. According to the Washington Post's Dana Milbank, at a book-launch party for his new book, "War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism," Feith blamed a laundry list of officials for failing "to challenge the logic of going to war."<BR/><BR/>Blames Bush, too<BR/>"He argued that former secretary of state Colin Powell and his deputy, Richard Armitage, were the ones who failed to challenge the logic of going to war -- not him," Milbank wrote. "He suggested that Powell, Armitage, Franks, former Iraq viceroy Jerry Bremer and even Feith's old boss, Donald Rumsfeld, should be blamed for the postwar chaos in Iraq -- not him. He blamed then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice for the way she operated ("fundamental differences were essentially papered over rather than resolved"). He accused the CIA of "improper" and unprofessional behavior. And he implicitly blamed President Bush for not cracking down on insubordinate behavior at the State Department."<BR/><BR/>"Yet at the same time, Feith told the... crowd that he disapproved of the "snide and shallow self-justification typical in memoirs of former officials," or what Feith cleverly called the " 'I-was-surrounded-by-idiots' school of memoir writing," Milbank continues. "Feith pointed out that he supported his account with 140 pages of notes and documents. And yet, in his hour-long panel discussion, Feith seemed to be of the impression that he had, in fact, been surrounded by idiots."<BR/><BR/>Feith himself hasn't escaped accusations that he was aloof during his time at his Office of Special Plans.<BR/><BR/>According to Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack, then- Secretary of State Colin Powell referred to the Office as the "Gestapo" office. Former CIA director George Tenet called his work "total crap." <BR/><BR/>When Feith stepped in to back recruiting a brigade of "Free Iraqi Forces" to enter Iraq with Americans, according to the book Cobra II, "Franks turned to Feith in a Pentagon corridor, letting him know where he stood: 'I don't have time for this fucking bullshit."<BR/><BR/>During his book launch party, Feith ironically remarked, "The CIA and the intelligence community should not be shading intelligence."<BR/><BR/>Milbank notes that Feith has been out of touch. Vaunting his book on "60 Minutes," Feith asserted the Administration didn't need to claim Iraq had weapons of mass destruction to invade.<BR/><BR/>"Pointing so many fingers in so many directions, a man is bound to get confused -- as happened when Steve Kroft asked him on "60 Minutes" about his claim that the lack of troops contributed to looting in Baghdad," he adds. "'I don't believe I raised the troop-level issue in that connection," Feith replied. Then Kroft presented him with the passage. "That's a fair point,' Feith amended."<BR/><BR/>Remarked Milbank wryly, "It must have been very difficult being Doug Feith: correct all the time, and surrounded by idiots."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com