Now stop all this Dougie Feith bashing you fact obsessed bullies!
Dougie cleared up a lot of stuff for us today in his Washington Post interview.
For one thing, he emphasized the inspector general's conclusion that his actions, described in the report as "inappropriate," were not unlawful.
And all this time, I have been wasting my energy being so angry about the "inappropriate" piles of unsubstantiated diarrhea he served up to the Congress and the public which led to wasting tens of thousands of lives and billions of tax payer dollars.
Had I known this altering intelligence thing wasn't illegal but merely inappropriate, like asking some ones salary, or the Paris Hilton sex tapes, I would have fixated on something waay more substantial.
Well don't I have egg on my face.
I am sure I will get plenty of comments about this post as to why I am writing about such fluff on a website that is SUPPOSED to be about things of importance, not "inappropriate" tabloidy stuff like the homicidal astronaut with poopy pants or Dougie Feith's secret mission to link Iraq to Al Qaeda with shoddy evidence.
Mea Culpa ok?
My sheepishness was heightened when I read Feith's further explanation to the Post.
"This was not 'alternative intelligence assessment,' " he said. "It was from the start a criticism of the consensus of the intelligence community, and in presenting it I was not endorsing its substance."
Oh my God, I am so embarrassed for myself again! I guess I just assumed he was endorsing it since it was crafted by Feith and Cheney and Rummy and the Perle and then presented to the Congress as empirical evidence to convince the public about why we needed this war.
As you can imagine, I am just kicking myself for jumping to conclusions.
Why didn't I just ask someone if he endorsed its substance?
I always jump to conclusions, next time I will for sure ask.
Mea Culpa II.
I am glad DF cleared up all the details for me. I, like so many of you was just so inundated with the 24/7 coverage of this story that I let myself get caught up in his silly, inappropriate behavior instead of focusing on stories that really matter.
Now I can finally start digging around on the internet to see if anyone is talking about Anna Nicole.