Key architect of Iraq war defends case for US-led invasion

An influential architect of the war in Iraq defended the case for US military action on Monday, saying the failure to find weapons of mass destruction did not mean the decision to invade was a mistake.

Douglas Feith, former undersecretary of defense for policy from 2001 to 2005, said Saddam Hussein posed a serious threat to the United States due to his links to terrorist groups and his regime's potential to produce biological and chemical weapons.

"And even based on what we have learned since, even though we didn't find the WMD stockpiles that the CIA had said we would find in Iraq, what we did find ... was a serious WMD threat in Iraq because Saddam had maintained programs for biological and chemical weapons," Feith said at a news conference promoting his new memoir, "War and Decision."

Feith said government documents show the Iraqi dictator had experts and resources in place so that his regime could manufacture chemical and biological weapons within three to five weeks
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http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Key_architect...c_05192008.html

Bullshit. More plausible deniability. The only value in what he has to say is keeping him from being prosecuted.

We need a real debate on the morality and wisdom of pre-emptive strikes. The neocons have had their chance to perform. Their ideology failed. Their goals were wrong. Their methods failed. And they have likely destroyed the US with their cavalier "experiment". Feith and the rest of them should be SHUNNED, at a minimum.