Mother Jones: Remember When Paul Wolfowitz Said Not to Worry About Sectarian Violence in Iraq?
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/watch-paul-wolfowitz-said-not-worry-about-sectarian-violence-iraq-bushBut the real question is, what was he doing on television anyway? Like his neocon comrades—Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, Robert Kagan, and others—Wolfowitz does not deserve to be presented as an expert with important ideas about the ongoing mess. He and the rest of this gang should have had their pundit licenses revoked after the Iraq War. They got it all wrong: WMD, the cost of the war, the consequences of the invasion. And these errors were compounded by the deaths of nearly 4,500 US service men and women—and 180,000 or more civilian Iraqi casualties. (Here's a partial list of Kristol's pre-war errors and misrepresentations.) So why care what they have to say now?
Instead, how about a a flashback? It's February 27, 2003, three weeks before the invasion. As some experts are pointing out that the war could cost a great deal and require the United States to keep hundreds of thousands of troops in Iraq following the cessation of hostilities, Wolfowitz is testifying before Congress. He's insisting that the United States will not have to maintain large number of troops in Iraq after the war—and he's refusing to provide a cost estimate. There's also another critical concern hovering at the time: whether a US invasion will create disorder that will trigger sectarian violence within Iraq. Wolfowitz, long known in Washington as a "defense intellectual," pooh-poohed the matter and indicated it was silly to fret such an outbreak
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At that same congressional appearance, Wolfowitz echoed the Bush-Cheney administration mantra of the time that the United States would be embraced by Iraqis after invading their nation.
These are Arabs, 23 million of the most educated people in the Arab world, who are going to welcome us as liberators. And when the message gets out to the whole Arab world, it's going to be a powerful counter to Osama bin Laden…It will be a great step forward.
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Wolfowitz: We 'Won' The Iraq War
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For not keeping troops in Iraq indefinitely (without approval of the Iraqi gov't), for not acting soon enough to stop ISIS, for losing Iraq and the Middle East, and for anything else they can think of.
There is good reason why the world called the Middle East a "powder keg" before these fools lit the fuse. No telling what the smoldering ashes will look like if it ever stops exploding.
Scoundrels.
None. Driven by shallow arrogance and boundless greed.
.... steal as much oil as possible as they protected the oil production infrastructure and
for Dick Cheney, KBR, Blackwater, the Lincoln Group, Bechtel, Haliburton, and other groups
and persons to steal and or make as much money as possible. And in both cases they were
very successful and they sure knew what they were doing in thoses operations. Cost plus no bid
contracts what could go wrong?
Shit, they loaded $12 billion in cash into helicopters and that money just "went missing."
