Masters Of War

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Wolfowitz Says Iraq War Might Not Have Occurred if United States Knew Hussein Had No WMD

Former U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said yesterday that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq might not have occurred if the United States had known there were no weapons of mass destruction in the country, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, Dec. 5).

“I'm not sure based on the evidence we know now that we could have been absolutely convinced that there was no danger, absolutely no danger,” Wolfowitz, a chief promoter of the invasion who is now president of the World Bank, said at the National Press Club. “If somebody could have given you a Lloyd’s of London guarantee that weapons of mass destruction would not possibly be used, one would have contemplated much more support for internal Iraqi opposition and not having the United States take the job on the way we did.”...

Odd, because it has been revealed in the last two years that many reputable intelligence sources (including some in the CIA and other top agencies) repeatedly warned you on the validity and reliability of the WMD info.

And do you mean you started this war solely because of WMDs and for no other reasons?

That's funny, Mr. Wolfowitz, because you said in a May 2003 interview that:
"The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction, as the core reason."

Is this new lie of yours just more of that same bureaucracy?

And your friend Condi revealed this little nugget just this past October:
"But the fact of the matter is that when we were attacked on September 11, we had a choice to make. We could decide that the proximate cause was al-Qaeda and the people who flew those planes into buildings and, therefore, we would go after al-Qaeda and perhaps after the Taliban and then our work would be done and we would try to defend ourselves... Or we could take a bolder approach, which was to say that we had to go after the root causes of the kind of terrorism that was produced there, and that meant a different kind of Middle East."

That foreign policy philosophy Condi described sounds awfully familiar, Paul.

Also- when asked how he accounted for U.S. intelligence failures before the war, Wolfowitz replied:
“Well, I don't have to..."

Tell that to these guys, sir.