Douglas Feith still believes that Saddam may have transfered WMD to Syria

[sabra]

:eyes:

Probably joins Bush's thinking that he will be vindicated in 30-50 years?

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=M2NjNmE3Y2QzMWZmY2RhNTQ0MzY1MDNlMWEyZjYyMzk=

Did Iraqi WMD Go to Syria? A less-than-definitive "no." (Douglas J. Feith)

A number of viewers of my interview with Peter Robinson have asked whether Saddam disposed of his weapons of mass destruction by sending them to Syria.

To my knowledge, the best information on the subject remains the Duelfer Report on the work of the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) – and the ISG did not find convincing evidence that Saddam transferred WMD to Syria.We know that Saddam once possessed WMD; he used them against Iran and against the Iraqi Kurds in the north. We know that we did not find the stockpiles that the CIA said we would find. As I observe in my book, War and Decision, there are only three possible explanations: Either (1) Saddam destroyed the stockpiles, (2) Saddam hid the stockpiles in Iraq or (3) Saddam transferred the stockpiles out of Iraq. The ISG concluded that Saddam "probably" destroyed his biological weapons stockpiles, but it did not find definitive proof of the destruction:

ISG judges that in 1991 and 1992, Iraq appears to have destroyed its undeclared stocks of BW weapons and probably destroyed remaining holdings of bulk BW agent. However ISG lacks evidence to document complete destruction. Iraq retained some BW- related seed stocks until their discovery after Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). (Duelfer Report, Vol. IIIB, p. 2 (emphasis added).)

Also in War and Decision, I note the following New York Times report:

Lieutenant General James R. Clapper, head of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency during the Iraq war, has been quoted as suggesting that some material had been transferred to Syria: "(S)atellite imagery showing a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq into Syria, just before the American invasion in March, led him to believe that illicit weapons material ‘unquestionably’ had been moved out of Iraq." (Douglas Jehl, "The Struggle for Iraq: Weapons Search; Iraqis Removed Arms Material, U.S. Aide Says," New York Times, October 29, 2003.)

There are millions of official Iraq documents warehoused but not yet reviewed by U.S. intelligence. Perhaps someday when these are read, we’ll get a more definitive answer on what Saddam did with his WMD stockpiles – more than the current assessment of probable destruction.

[underpants]

1. WOW Feith is still not aware that some WMD's effective life ends?

He still doesn't know what effect Operation Desert Fox had??

He still is interviewed??

[yardwork]

2. Duke University should be ashamed to have Doug Feith on their faculty.

Seriously, I don't know how the other faculty hold their heads up.

[BrotherBuzz]

17. I thought he was at Georgetown

but I just noticed the university dropped his contract this year.

He's at Duke now? They must be as nuts as Berkeley is for keeping John Yoo on the payroll.

[yardwork]

21. Yes, he's in the Political Science Dept. at Duke.

Feith brought his good buddy Karl Rove to speak at Duke last year.

[spanone]

3. he should be at gitmo

[mediaman007]

4. and without his help the CIA, FBI and armed forces are too stupid to

figure it out after five years!

General Tommy Franks: On Douglas Feith, the Pentagon's undersecretary for policy: "I have to deal with the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth almost every day."

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Bull, he's just spewing the neo con fantasy.

[Lasher]

12. Correct.

But I'm surprised he hasn't changed the recipient in this fantasy to Iran.

[MidwestTransplant]

6. Heavy flow of traffic into Syria before invasion lead him to believe....

Hey you moron, if people know they will be bombed, those who are able will leave in advance. Idiot.

[tanyev]

7. Probably still believes in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, too.

[bdamomma]

8. why are these criminals still around????

just spewing up their neo con agenda. they need to be arrested and locked up.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. And We Don't Have Satellite Photos

So, we've got tens of billions of dollars of surveillance based in space, and we didn't think to look for this?

And Feith thinks that vindicates anything? No, Dougie! It means you were asleep at the switch. So, either you were wrong or you were stupid.

You decide, Dougie boy.
The Professor

[Skidmore]

10. The neocons ride on the gravy train is coming to an end

...

[Subdivisions]

11. Yet the entire world's intelligence services saw absolutley nothing? n/t

[Solly Mack]

13. He must never stop clapping

I believe! I believe! I believe!

Or

More to the point

He doesn't want to the American people to stop clapping

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. We destroyed many of the WMD ourselves

during the First Gulf War, but we kept it a secret. Much of the documentation is still classified. Special ops were sent into Iraq in the final days of the First gulf war under G.H.W. Bush to destroy weapons sites. This was later denied by the CIA but then eventually admitted to years later in a CIA whitepaper in which they admitted that U.S. operatives had secretly destroyed WMD including sarin-gas tipped warheads at the giant weapons depot at Khamisiyah, Iraq.

This was denied by the Pentagon and CIA for two reasons. One was that these weapons had been furnished to Saddam by the U.S. government and could be traced to it and were a source of political embarrassment. The second reason concerned the phenomenon called "Gulf War Syndrome". The U.S. government sought to avoid billions of dollars in liability to returning war veterans who had been serving in the vicinity of the large weapons stockpiles when they were destroyed by U.S. Special Ops and the poisons were released into the air. In other words, we gassed our own people. Several years after the war, the U.S. Senate issued the "Reigle Report" in which they investigated gulf war syndrome and noted that many of the stockpiles of WMD in Iraq had been furnished to Saddam by Reagan/Bush.

The fact that George Bush used the excuse of WMD to invade Iraq when he knew that much of it had been secretly destroyed already under his father's administration at the end of the first gulf war shows just how deceptive and manipulative his regime has been.

[Javaman]

15. yes, he is the most stupid man on earth. nt

[Jack Rabbit]

16. The only thing I want to hear from Feith is his apology to an international tribuanl

. . . just before he is sentenced to life in prison for war crimes.

[damntexdem]

18. Does he also believe in Santa and the Tooth Fairy?

Or does he just claim to believe?

[LeftishBrit]

19. Douglas Feith clearly needs some form of treatment for his delusions!

[Flubadubya]

20. That's what he wants YOU to believe...

He is more deceitful than he is delusional. I don't think he believes it for one minute. :eyes: