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
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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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The UN inspectors do not have the capability to find hidden weapons in a country the size of Iraq if the Iraqi government is working to conceal them.
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The world community knows that Iraq has chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.
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I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.
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No, the United States does not target civilians.
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If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions.
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We know that there are various activities important to the insurgents in Iraq that are occurring in Syria.
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We have a substantial number of countries that have pledged and provided all kinds of support for the United States in the event that war becomes necessary in Iraq.