The House of Cards
Jul 26th, 2006 at 2:19 pm by Susie
From Rolling Stone, the story behind Larry Franklin, Michael Ledeen and their plot to go to war with Iran. Just go read the whole thing, it’s scary stuff:
But the Bush administration’s hostility toward Iran is not simply an outgrowth of the current crisis. War with Iran has been in the works for the past five years, shaped in almost complete secrecy by a small group of senior Pentagon officials attached to the Office of Special Plans. The man who created the OSP was Douglas Feith, the undersecretary of defense for policy. A former Middle East specialist on the National Security Council in the Reagan administration, Feith had long urged Israel to secure its borders in the Middle East by attacking Iraq and Iran. After Bush’s election, Feith went to work to make that vision a reality, putting together a team of neoconservative hawks determined to drive the U.S. to attack Tehran. Before Bush had been in office a year, Feith’s team had arranged a covert meeting in Rome with a group of Iranians to discuss their clandestine help.
Douglas Fieth? as in: Described by General Tommy Franks as either “the dumbest fucking guy on the planet”