THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2008 War Policy with Douglas Feith: Chapter 4 of 5 Feith describes how WMD in Iraq — or the lack thereof — changed everything. Despite the fact that the WMD threat was but one of several dangers posed by Saddam’s regime, the failure to discover the WMD stockpiles prompted the Bush administration to shift its rhetoric away from past threats and toward Iraq’s future. In doing so the administration only empowered its critics. PERMALINK About Douglas Feith Douglas Feith is a professor at Georgetown University and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. From 2001 to 2005 he served as undersecretary of Defense for policy, reporting directly to the secretary of Defense. He is the author of War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism (Harper, 2008).

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