[lbo-talk] Churchill Bad; Douglas Feith Good Hire (was: Churchill to Be Fired)

[B.]

Yep, Douglas Feith led the US govt. Office of Special Plans, the Ministry of Disinformation that was responsible for propagandizing the US public into war mode prior to the Iraq War. You know, hinting Saddam was involved with 9-11, that an Iraqi nuclear program was in the works, all that "Dr. Germ"-type bullshit. Feith was in charge of all that, the fucker. Even Colin Powell at the time called Feith's OSP a "Gestapo." (The new documentary "Why We Fight" goes into this in-depth.)

 
Ward Churchill is VERY small potatoes compared to this level of dishonesty.

 

 Another left academic recently given the shaft was anthropologist David Graeber of Yale. Not fired, his position was simply not renewed -- after he'd become active in supporting Yale's GESO grad student union. Graeber was an IWW member and key organizer of many anti-globo protests. Counterpunch interviewed him about it here: http://counterpunch.org/frank05132005.html

 

 -B.

 

 

 Aaron Shuman wrote:    "I haven't followed Feith too closely, but if he cooked pre-war intelligence on Iraq, that bias alone is reason for academia not to touch him--and the charges
against Churchill pale in comparison. Instead, Feith's been sitting at Stanford and Harvard, while the Pentagon's inspector general conducts an investigation. How come there's been so much press about the Churchill investigation, and comparably none about the Pentagon IG into Feith's office?