Zionist Dissemination of Faulty Pro-War Intelligence

The former president George W. Bush said recently that his biggest regret was the faulty intelligence (which took us to war with Iraq under false pretenses). A major source of this false pro-war material came from the Pentagon office of former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, as documented in the February 9, 2007 report of the Department of Defense Inspector General (Report No. 07-INTEL-04). This report found that Feith's office had expanded its role from policy to "analyzing and disseminating alternative intelligence." This "alternative intelligence" included conclusions that were inconsistent with the consensus of the Intelligence Community but were nevertheless disseminated to senior White House decision makers to whom the alternative intelligence was "shown as intelligence products" without clearly showing their variance with the consensus of the Intelligence Community.

As James Bamford notes in his book A Pretext for War, Douglas Feith has long been known as a Zionist zealot, publicly advocating Jewish settlement expansion in occupied Palestine and opposing peace processes such as Oslo and Camp David. In 1996 Feith joined with fellow Zionists Richard Perle and David Wurmser to produce an Israeli strategy paper "A Clean Break" for then Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. This strategy paper advocated overthrowing Saddam Hussein to benefit Israel. In 2003 this came to pass, at the great cost of American blood and treasure, because the American people were deceived by false intelligence.

Feith's office presented briefings to senior policy makers which went beyond the available intelligence and asserted that an alleged al-Qaida/Iraq Prague meeting in April 2001 was a "known contact." This unconfirmed meeting between lead 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta and Iraqi intelligence officer al-Ani actually never occurred but was used by senior Bush administration officials in pushing us into the unnecessary war with Iraq. Feith's office drew false conclusions about the relationship between Iraq and al Qaida such as that "intelligence indicates cooperation in all categories;" that there is a "mature, symbiotic relationship with "shared interest and pursuit of WMD," and also said there were "indications of possible Iraqi coordination with al Qaida specifically related to 9/11." These statements were at variance with the conclusions of the Intelligence Community.

Feith's office furthermore did not notify the Intelligence Community of their presentations at which they further "undercut" the Intelligence Community by declaring that the Intelligence Community had "fundamental problems" assessing information. The American people were misled by the Zionists into thinking that Saddam Hussein, whom the Israel-firsters wished to depose to benefit Israel, was a threat to the United States. (He was not.) And thus we embarked on the greatest foreign policy blunder in US history.