Under-Sec. of Defense Feith for "dirty tricks" operated as the neocon point man in the Defense Dept. But his channel of authority short-circuited SecDef Rumsfeld. Bremer, the presidential Proconsul in Baghdad received an order in writing from Feith to dissolve the Iraqi armed forces and civil service. The motive was to totally fragment Iraq so that it might never again be a threat to Israel or Saudi Arabia. In this, however, Israel was not consulted; in fact, Sharon advised against such decomposition; he worried that too deep a de-Ba'athification might leave Iraq short of technical bureaucrats and in chaos. But it is rather the first generation neocons wedded to old Stalinist notion of conquest that urged the memo on Feith, knowing that his enthusiasm far outstripped his judgment. Presented with a fait accompli, SeDef Rumsfeld, who was then counting on the neocons to make him president in future elections, simply endorsed the Feith memo. As a result, we are left with a strange quandary in Robert Draper's new book DEAD CERTAIN: Bush cannot account for that decision for he thought that the civil service and army would simply be sworn over to the new post-liberation regime. The DoD Inspector General charges against Feith have yet to broaden to where he stands as the first official nexus for the momentous decision that resulted in the current hopeless insurgency that is pinning down the US armed forces. This will be the first tear in the Bush cover-up for his absentee presidency and exposure of the low unauthorized levels at which life and death decisions were made. This is only the beginning of the exposure of neocon usurpation of the Bush presidency in the first term. I can only hope that no one will associate this cabal with the Jewish-American community which, as a whole deeply opposed the neocon machinations. Daniel E. Teodoru