Dowd: A Wolfie in Sheep's Clothing

[kskiska]

Paul Wolfowitz is having fun.

"It's fun to have the chance to be a retail politician again," he told Andrew Balls of The Financial Times on a recent trip to India. It was an economic odyssey designed to warm up his image by tipping off the press to record his shirt-sleeve visit to a slum and his street dancing with children in Andhra Pradesh.

When the reporter noted that Wolfowitz's role as No.2 at the Pentagon must seem distant, he agreed, saying, "Yes, it does seem like a long time ago."

(snip)

Unlike the Powell maxim "If you break it, you own it," the Wolfowitz philosophy is "If you break it, walk away from it."

Where on earth are those who egged on the Iraq civil war? The neoconservatives have moved on to debates about China and Iran. Richard Perle has dropped out of sight, except to pop up, as he did at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual meeting in May, to urge a military raid on Iran if it's "on the verge of a nuclear weapon."

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http://www.etaiwannews.com/Opinion/2005/10/02/1128233752.htm

[Stephanie]

1. thanks for the link - Wolfie can ROT IN HELL

I think he's at the top of the list of people I despise after George Junior & Dick.

Mo Dowd's conclusion:

Al-Qaida is exploiting tribal tensions intensified by the bungled U.S. occupation. Wolfowitz's assumption that America could conquer Baghdad and install the Shiites at the expense of the Sunnis, in a religious war that has been going on for centuries, was naive and dangerous.

The rest of us may be glued to the gruesome pileup of bodies in Iraq, but Wolfie has moved on. He told The Financial Times that he still thought the United States and the British did "the right thing" for "the right reasons," and "hopefully, it's going to turn out the right way."

He said that wherever he travels, from Burkina Faso to Bosnia, Iraq rarely comes up. How fortunate for him.

[Catfight]

2. link doesn't work.nt

[cassiepriam]

3. Anybody have a link that works?? And what is a RETAIL POL? nt

[Demeter]

4. So Much More Expensive Than Wholesale!

[Gasping4Truth]

5. Free link here

http://tinyurl.com/bvpya

[Gasping4Truth]

6. Oops, second try

http://tinyurl.com/97ag4

[rodeodance]

7. kick and thanks