Douglas Feith Quotations

I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction.

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.

The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.

Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.

I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.

No, the United States does not target civilians.

It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.

They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons.

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet.

Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.

I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.

There are a lot of things that need to be done to improve communications.

Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.

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.

If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.

The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.

The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree.

We know that there are various activities important to the insurgents in Iraq that are occurring in Syria.

We are a country that has many friends, many allies, when we operate in the world, we operate with friends and allies that's been true for decades and if we wind up going to war in Iraq it will be true in Iraq.

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.

Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security.

What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do.

I did think it was important to do what we could to train up Iraqis as a security force in advance of our military operation.

Here we are less than two years after the liberation of Baghdad, and an enormous amount of reconstruction has been done.

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.

The world community knows that Iraq has chemical weapons and biological weapons.

I'm not saying that getting to the bottom of this WMD issue isn't important. It is important. But it is not of immediate consequence.

I mean, the idea that we could have peace no matter what anybody else in the world does didn't make sense to me.

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.