The Boston Globe, January 25, 2008
WASHINGTON – Paul Wolfowitz, the former World Bank president and former deputy secretary of defense who was instrumental in the US decision to invade Iraq in 2003, has been named chairman of a panel that advises the State Department on arms-control issues.
Wolfowitz, now a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, will head Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s International Security Advisory Board, the State Department said yesterday in a statement.
“The ISAB provides the Department of State with a source of independent insight, advice, and innovation on all aspects of arms control, disarmament, nonproliferation, political-military issues, and international security and related aspects of public diplomacy,” the State Department said.
Wolfowitz was among the senior US officials who warned of Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction capabilities, a key justification for invading Iraq and toppling the late dictator Saddam Hussein.
“Disarming Iraq of its chemical and biological weapons and dismantling its nuclear weapons program is a crucial part of winning the war on terror,” Wolfowitz told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York in January 2003, two months before the US-led invasion of Iraq.
“That’s beneath the dignity of a former president. He is not
helping anyone, and certainly not helping the Democratic Party.”
— Patrick Leahy, Bush’s runner stamp, scolding the most successful
Democrat of the last 60 years about what’s good for the party,
How can Leahy talk about dignity when he let weak heart Dick tell him to “go fuck yourself” on the Senate floor. If I were Leahy I’d have made sure the rotten bastard Cheney never got up off the floor again.
Comment by VTindependent — January 25, 2008 @ 5:37 pm
Golly Gee Willikers,
Now the Woolfie is going to make sure all the third world countries have Nukular devices.
Blackwater is going to make a fortune peddling
Nukes like the HD explosives in 04 and later the
“missing” Rifles and pistols to the turkish PKK.
They’ll probably get giftcards.
I knew this cabinet was the most corrupt after all the republican administrations they were in
all ended in presidential pardons,
but this is blatant megalomania.
Comment by Rainlander — January 26, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
Maybe Wolfie the Mad can donate his salary to defray the cost of the Iraq disaster for the average American — after all, he was the one who predicted that the Iraq War would pay for itself and only cost us around $50 million total.
Comment by RS Janes — January 26, 2008 @ 5:14 pm