Feith: Iraq war was an honest error

[TriWooOx]

Quote:Former defense official Doug Feith says Washington's failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is 'an honest error, not a lie'.

The Pentagon official defended the US invasion of Iraq and claimed that while the failure to find WMD's 'was catastrophic to our credibility', it was not the result of government deception.

"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," said Feith.

"It was an honest error, not a lie… Even if you correct for that error, what we found in Iraq was a serious WMD threat," the Iraq war-architect added.

He maintained that the Bush administration was fully aware of Saddam Hussein's ill intentions and therefore the war on Iraq was 'perfectly sensible and valid'.

A recent investigative report subjected Feith to international criticism after exposing him as the manipulator who fabricated intelligence to justify the US invasion of Iraq.

The report claimed that Feith had 'inappropriately' and in open opposition to evidence provided by the formal intelligence community engaged in activities to hype up the issue of waging a war on Iraq.

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