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Douglas Feith
American
Public Servant
About the author
Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
#Peace
#Divorce
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.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
Europe is a collection of free countries.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
#Europe
#Countries
I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
#Diplomacy
I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
#World
#War
#Thought
#Reading
#World war
I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
#Iraq
I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
#Feet
#Iraq
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.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
#Life
#Israel
#Night
#Actions
#Military
I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
#Weapons
#Destruction
There are a lot of things that need to be done to improve communications.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
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.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
#People
#Europe
#states
#United
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.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
#Weapons
#Government
#Purpose
#Mouse
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.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
#Will
#Peace
#Country
#Government
#Neighbors
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.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
#World
#Government
#Help
#Fact
Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
#World
#America
#Military
No, the United States does not target civilians.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
#states
#United
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.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
#Security
#Freedom
#Power
#Nations
#Community
#Rights
We know that there are various activities important to the insurgents in Iraq that are occurring in Syria.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
#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.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
#Support
#War
#Iraq
#states
#United
#Countries
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.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
#Will
#World
#War
#Country
#Friends
#Iraq
#Wind
Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
#Public
#Peace
#Actions
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.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
#Weapons
#Training
#Intelligence
There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
#Government
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.
Douglas Feith,
American
Public Servant
#Work
#Government
#Pressure
#Key
#Iraq
#Decision