Douglas Feith
Douglas Feith
Douglas J. Feithserved as the under secretary of Defense for Policy for United States president George W. Bush, from July 2001 until August 2005. His official responsibilities included the formulation of defense planning guidance and forces policy, United States Department of Defenserelations with foreign countries, and DoD's role in U.S. government interagency policymaking...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth16 July 1953
CountryUnited States of America
iraq
I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.
affairs alone america itself operate
Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.
I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet.
relative war
I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
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They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons.
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It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.
united united-states
No, the United States does not target civilians.
conducting
I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.
divorce essential
Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.
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The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.
government iraqi
There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.
I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction.
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I think the essential message was that Saddam Hussein represented a serious threat to the United States and to our friends and allies in the region.
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I'm not saying that getting to the bottom of this WMD issue isn't important. It is important. But it is not of immediate consequence.