Palestine Blogs (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Key war on terror architect Douglas Feith has now confirmed Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Wesley Clark in admitting that the so-called War on Terror is a hoax. In fact, starting right after...
The Islamic Workplace (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Paul Wolfowitz During the 1990s, Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and a group of U.S. Senators organized a forum to exchange views among East Asians and Americans. Asked at one session about the role of Islam in politics, Anwar replied, “I have no use for governments which call themselves Islamic and then deny basic rights [...]
Lawyers, Guns and Money (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Via Phil Carter and Eli Lake , Paul Wolfowitz on the mistakes of the occupation: "One was enough troops for the major combat. A lot of people said we didn't have it, and obviously we did. There was a very difficult balance that had to be struck between surprise, which meant a smaller force, and enough troops or a lot of troops, which meant a much slower force and potential of many disastrous...
Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Ignorance, whether willful or not, from the major "architects" of the Iraq venture. From Diana West: So there I was, listening to a few of the major "architects" of the war in Iraq -- Paul Wolfowitz, formerly No. 2 man...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Paul Wolfowitz, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, clarifies some “misconceptions” about the Iraq war: The fact is, however, that we did end up with an occupation authority for a full nine months, and I’m afraid that the label occupation sticks to us even to this day, although the occupation ended in June of 2004. Yes, [...]
Later On (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
How did Paul Wolfowitz ever manage to get a paying job? The guy's hopeless. Phil Carter has a great takedown of Woflowitz in this column, which includes this snippet: … Oh, Wolfie. Seriously. Can we talk? When you say the American government was “pretty much clueless on counterinsurgency,” you really mean that you were pretty much clueless, [...]
The Corner (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
The essential Eli Lake at the New York Sun reports the first public comments about Iraq in some time by former Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz: 'There were two issues about enough troops,' Mr. Wolfowitz, who served as deputy defense secretary between 2001 and 2005, said yesterday. 'One was enough troops for the major combat. A lot of people said we didn't have it, and obviously...
Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
In its infinite wisdom, C-SPAN chose to commit this Hudson Institute panel to celluloid. Of course, I can't get the dang video to work right, but I had the fortune to catch most of the panel last night on the teevee. Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Dan Senor, and Peter Rodman got the old gang back [...]
On Deadline (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Paul Wolfowitz, the Pentagon's No. 2 during and after the invasion of Iraq, now says officials were "clueless" when it came to fighting insurgents. "No one anticipated this insurgency, a lot of people were slow to recognize it once it...
FP Passport (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Eli Lake catches Paul Wolfowitz making rare public comments on Iraq: Paul Wolfowitz, in his first public remarks on the Iraq war in years, said the American government was "pretty much clueless on counterinsurgency" in the first year of the war. The former deputy secretary of defense said yesterday that the force sent to Iraq was adequate for fighting Saddam Hussein's military,...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
At a Hudson Institute event today, Iraq war architects Paul Wolfowitz and Doug Feith, as well as Dan Senor and Peter Rodman, reconvened to celebrate Feith’s new book, War and Decision, which tries to explain the failures of the Iraq war as just failures of other people. Wolfowitz said Feith’s book is “valuable” because it “demolishes” [...]
Mirth, Musings, & More (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
A former Pentagon official who served under Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz is calling the Iraq war a "major debacle." This is quite surprising, especially since I thought conditions in Iraq were just absolutely wonderful. Joseph Collins, a retired army Colonel, has prepared a blunt 60 page assessment of the conflict. According to him, Globally, U.S. standing among friends and allies...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
I n the play "Embedded," Tim Robbins' 2003 satire about the Iraq invasion, a thinly veiled Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz shout with Nazi-like gusto, "Hail, Leo Strauss!" and get sexually aroused at the prospect of international conquest. During the post-Sept. 11, 2001, age of neo-phobia, when an irrational fear of anything that might be called "neoconservative" gripped the nation,...
FP Passport (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
Joseph Collins, a retired Army colonel, was a special assistant to former Pentagon No.2 Paul Wolfowitz and later made deputy assistant secretary for stability operations under former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Now at the National Defense University, he has penned a scathing assessment (pdf) of the Iraq war. Collins starts off with a bang: Measured in blood and treasure,...
The Conscience of a Liberal (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
One important pillar of conservative political dominance, I believe, is the phenomenon sometimes called “wingnut welfare”: loyalists are always assured of decent employment, no matter how badly they perform. Paul Wolfowitz may fail miserably, twice; but there’s a chair waiting for him at AEI. Rick Santorum may talk about man on dog, and lose in [...]
