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10/31/2011 10:59pm,
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from http://thinkprogress.org/report/the-architects-where-are-they-now/
"Role In Going To War: Wolfowitz said the U.S. would be greeted as liberators, that Iraqi oil money would pay for the reconstruction, and that Gen. Eric Shinseki’s estimate that several hundred thousand troops would be needed was “wildly off the mark.” "[Washington Post, 12/8/05; Wolfowitz, 3/27/03] -
Where He Is Now: Bush promoted Wolfowitz to head the World Bank in March 2005. Two years into his five-year term, Wolfowitz was rebuked by the World Bank investigative committee for engineering an unethical pay and promotion package for his girlfriend and, after repeated calls for his resignation, stepped down on May 17, 2007. Wolfowitz is now a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a right-wing think tank that “has the President’s ear” on national security issues. [Washington Post, 3/17/05, 5/18/07; Financial Times, 6/28/07]
Key Quote: “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 [for going to war].” [USA Today, 5/30/03]
Here's some good lines from Mr. Iraq War Architect.
"We are treating the Iraqi prisoners extremely well. In fact I think they get good food and shelter and they're free from the horrible commanders they used to work for. I think most of them are much happier, frankly."
Torture Room, Abu Ghraib: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6176/6165241310_c93f470044_m.jpg
"I can't imagine anyone here wanting to spend another $30 billion to be there for another 12 years."
Paul in 2003, and he's very correct, no one wanted to spend $30 billion. Instead the USA has spent $800 billion. Anyone curious about the cost of America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan can look it up on http://costofwar.com/en/, up to the latest fraction of a second ($3000 a second, $180,000 a minute...) AND, according to the Christian Science Monitor (http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/new-economy/2011/1025/Iraq-war-will-cost-more-than-World-War-II), the eventual cost will be $4,000,000,000 to $6,000,000,000, with replacing all the weapons and trucks and taking care of 40,000 injured veterans.
"We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way." Now that is a good one Paul. Too bad you and Shrub didn't bother reading Bush Sr's book, where he spells out the reasons he DIDN'T invade Iraq back in Gulf War I: "...we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-cold war world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the U.N.'s mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different--and perhaps barren--outcome." He pointed out the lack of an exit strategy and how invading Iraq would upset the world order. The IDIOT neo-cons thought that thought regime change would help bring democracy to Iraq and then to the rest of the region. Instead, getting rid of Saddam did upset the balance of power, giving much to Iran, extending Shia influence tremendously, creating a Sunni backlash and so on...
Rachel nails the ************ (many repeats of comb licking):
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908//vp/45084722#45084722
AND the ************ paid his **** bunny, Shaha Riza, years before his cheating corrupt affair got him fired from the World Bank: "As if the tangled web of Paul Wolfowitz and his girlfriend, Shaha Riza, weren't already sordid enough, now comes word that while he was Deputy Secretary of Defense, the Pentagon ordered Science Applications International Corp., a Pentagon contractor, to enter into a subcontract with Ms. Riza under which she spent approximately a month in the spring of 2003 "studying ways to form a government in Iraq."
I can't let Asshole Cheney off, "My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, in weeks rather than months." - Far from being seen as a benevolent liberator, the United States is perceived as blundering bully – and an abusive, hypocritical one to boot.
Here's a fun site, http://zfacts.com/p/87.html
and worth a look, http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2001/2841wolfowitz.html
from http://thinkprogress.org/report/the-architects-where-are-they-now/
"Role In Going To War: Wolfowitz said the U.S. would be greeted as liberators, that Iraqi oil money would pay for the reconstruction, and that Gen. Eric Shinseki’s estimate that several hundred thousand troops would be needed was “wildly off the mark.” "[Washington Post, 12/8/05; Wolfowitz, 3/27/03] -
Where He Is Now: Bush promoted Wolfowitz to head the World Bank in March 2005. Two years into his five-year term, Wolfowitz was rebuked by the World Bank investigative committee for engineering an unethical pay and promotion package for his girlfriend and, after repeated calls for his resignation, stepped down on May 17, 2007. Wolfowitz is now a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a right-wing think tank that “has the President’s ear” on national security issues. [Washington Post, 3/17/05, 5/18/07; Financial Times, 6/28/07]
Key Quote: “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 [for going to war].” [USA Today, 5/30/03]
Here's some good lines from Mr. Iraq War Architect.
"We are treating the Iraqi prisoners extremely well. In fact I think they get good food and shelter and they're free from the horrible commanders they used to work for. I think most of them are much happier, frankly."
Torture Room, Abu Ghraib: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6176/6165241310_c93f470044_m.jpg
"I can't imagine anyone here wanting to spend another $30 billion to be there for another 12 years."
Paul in 2003, and he's very correct, no one wanted to spend $30 billion. Instead the USA has spent $800 billion. Anyone curious about the cost of America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan can look it up on http://costofwar.com/en/, up to the latest fraction of a second ($3000 a second, $180,000 a minute...) AND, according to the Christian Science Monitor (http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/new-economy/2011/1025/Iraq-war-will-cost-more-than-World-War-II), the eventual cost will be $4,000,000,000 to $6,000,000,000, with replacing all the weapons and trucks and taking care of 40,000 injured veterans.
"We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way." Now that is a good one Paul. Too bad you and Shrub didn't bother reading Bush Sr's book, where he spells out the reasons he DIDN'T invade Iraq back in Gulf War I: "...we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-cold war world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the U.N.'s mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different--and perhaps barren--outcome." He pointed out the lack of an exit strategy and how invading Iraq would upset the world order. The IDIOT neo-cons thought that thought regime change would help bring democracy to Iraq and then to the rest of the region. Instead, getting rid of Saddam did upset the balance of power, giving much to Iran, extending Shia influence tremendously, creating a Sunni backlash and so on...
Rachel nails the ************ (many repeats of comb licking):
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908//vp/45084722#45084722
AND the ************ paid his **** bunny, Shaha Riza, years before his cheating corrupt affair got him fired from the World Bank: "As if the tangled web of Paul Wolfowitz and his girlfriend, Shaha Riza, weren't already sordid enough, now comes word that while he was Deputy Secretary of Defense, the Pentagon ordered Science Applications International Corp., a Pentagon contractor, to enter into a subcontract with Ms. Riza under which she spent approximately a month in the spring of 2003 "studying ways to form a government in Iraq."
I can't let Asshole Cheney off, "My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, in weeks rather than months." - Far from being seen as a benevolent liberator, the United States is perceived as blundering bully – and an abusive, hypocritical one to boot.
Here's a fun site, http://zfacts.com/p/87.html
and worth a look, http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2001/2841wolfowitz.html