“When we failed to find WMD stockpiles [in Iraq],” former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith argues today on Uncommon Knowledge, “there was a stunning shift in the President’s rhetoric from discussing the threats the Saddam regime had posed to discussing only the promotion of democracy. I think there were some terrible consequences that flowed from that shift in rhetoric.”
It is one thing for the President to ask the American people to support a war intended to defend our own Republic, and it is something else entirely for him to ask the American people to support a war intended to promote the ideals of his speechwriting shop. Click on the image above, and the author of War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism will explain.