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The Wolfowitz Loose Cannon Continues

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Note that there has now been a Correction and Clarification posted, and the article has been removed. Except that the correction doesn’t say that any of the words that Wolfowitz was reported as saying were incorrect, only that the magazine’s interpretation of them was incorrect.
Luckily we’ll always have a copy of the article right here.
And now, on with my original post…
For the life of me, I can’t understand why Paul Wolfowitz is blowing the whistle on his own administration like this. (See above note, this is only a logical crazed interpretation and is not what he really meant to say. So with that in mind, let’s get back to my little rant, shall we?) Is he so mad with power he thinks it won’t matter? Is he simply mad in general, and perhaps he doesn’t even realize the implications of what he is saying? Is this part of some greater scheme to prove to the rest of the world that the American public will tolerate this kind of behavior so he can go do the same thing in other parts of the world? (Presumably with the American people’s blessing?)
I can’t figure it out, but it sure is fun to watch. These days, I’ll take little sputters of truth from this administration any way I can get them 🙂
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WMD’s = ‘The Most Convenient Excuse For War’ = ‘Not A Real Threat’ = ‘Lies To Congress and American People’

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WMD just a convenient excuse for war, admits Wolfowitz
By David Usborne and Katherine Butler for the Independent UK.

The Bush administration focused on alleged weapons of mass destruction as the primary justification for toppling Saddam Hussein by force because it was politically convenient, a top-level official at the Pentagon has acknowledged.
The extraordinary admission comes in an interview with Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Defence Secretary, in the July issue of the magazine Vanity Fair…
The comments suggest that, even for the US administration, the logic that was presented for going to war may have been an empty shell. They come to light, moreover, just two days after Mr Wolfowitz’s immediate boss, Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary, conceded for the first time that the arms might never be found…
Most striking is the fact that these latest remarks come from Mr Wolfowitz, recognised widely as the leader of the hawks’ camp in Washington most responsible for urging President George Bush to use military might in Iraq. The magazine article reveals that Mr Wolfowitz was even pushing Mr Bush to attack Iraq immediately after the 11 September attacks in the US, instead of invading Afghanistan…
Critics of the administration and of the war will now want to know how convinced the Americans really were that the weapons existed in Iraq to the extent that was publicly stated. Questions are also multiplying as to the quality of the intelligence provided to the White House. Was it simply faulty given that nothing has been found in Iraq, or was it influenced by the White House’s fixation on the weapons issue? Or were the intelligence agencies telling the White House what it wanted to hear?

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Wolfowitz Admits That Iraqi WMD ‘Threat’ Was Chosen As Justification For The War For ‘Burecratic reasons’

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Wolfowitz reveals Iraq PR plan
By John Shovelan for The World Today.

The Deputy Defence Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz is seen as one of the most hawkish figures in the Bush administration, and it was he who, shortly after the terrorist strikes on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, laid out the reasoning for President Bush why the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein needed to be overthrown.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Mr Wolfowitz is quoted at saying the reason for choosing Iraq’s alleged stocks of chemical and biological weapons to justify going to war was taken for bureaucratic reasons.
It was, he says one of many reasons. The magazine quotes Mr Wolfowitz saying “for bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue

New Category: The Shrub War – WMD Lies

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So the Shrub Administration is now admitting openly to the American Public that it was lied to in order to gain public support for the war.
I just wanted all of these articles in one place so we can remind everyone of the truth when election day grows near and the Repubs start up with the revisionist history regarding its official position as to why the war was necessary.