July 15, 2005

THE QUALITY OF THE REGIME CERTAINLY SUFFICED:

Outgoing Pentagon aide rethinks case for Iraq war (ROBERT BURNS, July 15, 2005, Chicago Sun-Times)

The top policy adviser to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the Bush administration erred by building its public case for war against Saddam Hussein mainly on the claim that he possessed banned weapons.

Douglas J. Feith's comment is a rare admission of error about Iraq by a senior administration official. Feith, who is leaving after four years as the undersecretary of defense for policy, said he remains convinced war against Iraq was necessary.

''I don't think there is any question that we as an administration, instead of giving proper emphasis to all major elements of the rationale for war, overemphasized the WMD aspect,'' he said, using the abbreviation for weapons of mass destruction.


WMD was just the cost of keeping Colin Powell and Tony Blair on board.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 15, 2005 10:09 AM
Comments

AubreyJ from the thread above had a link on his site to another site with this leftist song "They Lied" Not an untalented singer.

I guess I'm the only person in the world apparently who thinks Bush could have gotten the same authorization he got from Congress without mentioning WMDs. Seems though that the only thing leftists and MSM heard in that time frame was WMD and more WMD. Powell got a strange masochistic thrill from being dissed by the UN over and over again.

Posted by: h-man at July 15, 2005 1:55 PM

He already had authorization from Congress.

Posted by: oj at July 15, 2005 2:00 PM

"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." The rule is pretty clear.

Posted by: mike standard at July 16, 2005 9:24 AM

Yes, it couldn't be clearer. Only the Left considers Saddam a neighbor.

Posted by: oj at July 16, 2005 9:37 AM

Wolfowitz said the same thing almost 2 years ago. But the important point is that the meme is not true. Go back to Buhs's and Blair's pre war speeches, they both went over many issues and reasons other than WMD.

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at July 17, 2005 7:59 PM
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