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Paul Wolfowitz - Department of Defense
Paul Wolfowitz is Deputy Secretary of Defense. According to whitehouse.gov: Prior to his current appointment, Paul Wolfowitz was Dean of the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He is a veteran... [more]
Paul Wolfowitz is Deputy Secretary of Defense. According to whitehouse.gov: Prior to his current appointment, Paul Wolfowitz was Dean of the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He is a veteran of both the Reagan and George H. W. Bush Administrations. At the beginning of the Reagan Administration, he served as Director of Policy Planning for the Department of State and then as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. In 1986, he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia. Under President George H. W. Bush, Paul served as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. He is a graduate of Cornell University. He received both his Master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
By Maidhc Ó Cathail Paul Wolfowitz, the chief architect of the Iraq War, now wants the United States to help refugees. No, not the estimated 4.8 million Iraqis forced to flee their homes in a war he and other pro-Israeli neoconservatives planned as far back as 1992. Instead, the unlikely humanitarian, having brought “democracy” to the Iraqi people in 2003, has turned his attention this year to “the plight of North Korean refugees in China.”In...
- A Wolfowitz in Sheep’s Clothing (dissidentvoice.org)
Here's a poser: Suppose a public official is accused of recommending his girlfriend for a promotion, though he was the one who first flagged the potential conflict of interest and officials had refused to let him recuse himself from decisions about the woman. Should he lose his job? That's precisely what happened in 2007 to Paul Wolfowitz, who was run out of the World Bank on the pretext that he had given his girlfriend a raise. In fact, Mr...
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In the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz admits that the Bush administration chose the issue of Iraqi WMD as its primary justification for war, not because it was necessarily a legitimate concern, but because it was, in the words of reporter David Usbourne, "politically convenient." Wolfowitz also acknowledges that another justification played a strong part in the decision to invade: the prospect of the...
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From historycommons.org
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Conservative defenders of the Bush administration contend that Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was misquoted by Vanity Fair reporter Sam Tanenhaus. In an upcoming profile of Wolfowitz, Tanenhaus quotes him as saying, "For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on" . According to a Defense Department transcript of the original May 9, 2003 interview...
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Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, in Iraq as part of what the New York Times calls a "carefully choreographed visit" to that country to point up the record of brutality compiled by former dictator Saddam Hussein, tells reporters that Iraqi WMD are no longer the "core reason" why the US invaded Iraq, or why it occupies that country. "I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction," he says. "I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its...
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