The Unbearable Seriousness of Doug Feith

Peggy Noonan, village idiot of the Wall Street Journal's editorial board, reads Scott McClellan's astonishing book on the lies of Rove and Libby and the mendacity of the Bush administration in selling this disastrous war and concludes:

What's needed now? More memoirs, more data, more information, more testimony. More serious books, like Doug Feith's. More "this is what I saw" and "this is what is true." Feed history.

That would be Doug Feith, famously referred to as the "stupidest fucking guy on the face of the planet" by Tommy Franks, one of the architects of this war, who oversaw the Office of Special Plans, a shadow intelligence organization which took as its mandate the very straightforward goal of linking terrorist organizations to state sponsors, and which came to the none too startling conclusion that Iraq was a key sponsor of Al Queda, a conclusion that was unfortunately completely unsupported by any facts. Here he is feebly defending the main tenets and conclusions in his very "serious" book: