It’s amazing what Google turns up these days. Here is Haass on the Charlie Rose show in September 2003, two months after he left the administration to become president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Presumably free to speak his mind, and at a time when the war in Iraq was already going badly, Haass somehow does not take the opportunity to explain how he had opposed the war. On the contrary, he explains why he was for it.
CHARLIE ROSE: What’s the idea that drove us into war with Iraq? RICHARD HAASS: I think more than anything it was the concern about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, what they might do with them weather directly use them or indirectly hand them off to terrorists. I think also for some people there were additional reasons….I think you had a menu of arguments, the key one for me and the key one for the state department and indeed the U.S. Government was the weapons of mass destruction concern.
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