Now He Tells Us

In fairness, I should read the entire transcript before I comment on Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith's recent statements.

I don't think there is any question that we as an administration, instead of giving proper emphasis to all major elements of the rationale for war, overemphasized the WMD aspect,"

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"Our intelligence community made, apparently, an error, as to the stockpiles" of weapons it assured President Bush existed in 2003, Feith said. Thus that part of the administration's argument for why war was necessary was overdone, he said, adding, "Anything we said at all about stockpiles was overemphasis, given that we didn't find them."

On the other hand, I am on vacation, and may not have a chance to check  the transcript for a while. I have conteneded that some high officials declined to investigate warnings about "overemphasis". So I'll just stand by this statement from this spring's issue of Parameters, the Army War College journal. (Scroll down to the second letter).