{"id":4436,"date":"2007-04-19T23:42:30","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T06:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4436"},"modified":"2007-04-19T23:45:10","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T06:45:10","slug":"douglas-feith-there-were-no-analysts-who-said-saddam-was-not-a-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4436","title":{"rendered":"Douglas Feith: There Were No Analysts Who Said Saddam Was Not a Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

NPR’s Morning Edition<\/em> reported<\/a> yesterday that Douglas Feith<\/a>, the Bush Administration’s former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, has a new job since leaving the Pentagon. Apparently he’s busy rewriting history as a professor at Georgetown University.<\/p>\n

In apparent and extreme denial, one of the main Neocon architects for Bush’s failed war had the following extraordinary exchange with host Steve Inskeep (who, unfortunately, didn’t correct the record, so we guess we’ll have to) concerning the rationale for going to War in Iraq. Feith turned downright indignant when Inskeep suggested that there were analysts who didn’t see Saddam Hussein as a threat before the war…<\/p>\n

NPR: Feith insists that many accounts misstate the reasons the U.S. chose war against Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n

DOUGLAS FEITH: He had demonstrated that he was interested in WMD and the danger was that he could take action in the future that would get him in a major fight with us. At which point he might use<\/em> the WMD capabilities and connections to terrorists to hurt us.<\/p>\n

NPR: Is there any point in that that you ended up assuming too much?<\/p>\n

FEITH: I think that…I think that was a reasonable assumption under the circumstances…<\/p>\n

NPR: Still…<\/p>\n

FEITH: …Do you not?<\/p>\n

NPR: It sounds reasonable the way that you put it.<\/p>\n

FEITH: Well that’s what we were worried about (laughs)…I don’t think that there’s anything unreasonable in in…<\/p>\n

NPR: …But of course there were analysts making an entirely different…<\/p>\n

FEITH: No, there weren’t. No, there weren’t….I mean that’s just false<\/em>. I, I, I hope you can do something to clarify this point. I mean, this notion<\/i> that there were analysts who were saying that Saddam Hussein was not a threat<\/i>?! There was nobody<\/i> saying that.<\/strong><\/div>\n

“Nobody saying that”?! Really? Here’s just two of them<\/a> for a start. Names that Mr. Feith might be familiar with:<\/p>\n

“[F]rankly, [the sanctions on Iraq] have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors.”
\n– Colin Powell, February 24, 2001<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

“But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let’s remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern part of his country. We are able to keep arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt.”
\n– Condoleeza Rice, July 29, 2001<\/i><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What planet do these Bush dead-enders live on, anyway?! Amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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