Feith: Iraq war was an honest error

[TriWooOx]

Former defense official Doug Feith says Washington's failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is 'an honest error, not a lie'.

The Pentagon official defended the US invasion of Iraq and claimed that while the failure to find WMD's 'was catastrophic to our credibility', it was not the result of government deception.

"Even though we didn't find the WMD stockpiles that the CIA had said we would find in Iraq, what we did find ... was a serious WMD threat in Iraq because Saddam had maintained programs for biological and chemical weapons," said Feith.

"It was an honest error, not a lie