Wolfowitz: they should ``move forward,'' and not dwell on the war

[norml]

Wolfowitz's New Job Turning Him Into Iraq War's Invisible Man


Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Paul Wolfowitz's role as the architect of the Iraq war is shaping up to be one of the great disappearing acts in Washington.

Wolfowitz has kept a relatively low profile since leaving the Defense Department six months ago to run the World Bank, the largest financer of projects in poor countries. He has made about a half-dozen public appearances in the U.S., forgone official visits to Congress and stayed clear of one-on-one news interviews.

This is at a time when the former colleagues who helped him construct the Iraq invasion have been grilled before investigative commissions and criticized in opinion polls.

``Getting out of the public spotlight, maintaining low visibility is part of the effort to remove the public image'' of Wolfowitz's role in starting the war, says Stephen Wayne, a professor of government at Georgetown University in Washington.


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While Wolfowitz doesn't shy away from defending the war when asked, he rarely mentions Iraq in public appearances. The day after taking his post, Wolfowitz told a crowd of development and humanitarian organizations that they should ``move forward,'' and not dwell on the war.



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[cliss]

1. Interesting choice of words.....

"Move forward". Here's an amazing one: "Not dwell on the war". In spite of the fact that we are IN a war, today, this second.

Paul Wolfowitz.....I remember reading the PNAC documents several years ago. Man, were they hot shots then. So Bold. So brazen. The world is our Oyster. We are invincible.

And now? Look at him. The weasel. Slinks away and hopes that we will "Not dwell on this war".

[Supersedeas]

12. not a luxury that our loved ones in the desert can resort to

[bahrbearian]

2. People always seem to look forward ,after these guys screw up.

Never are they held accountable.

[jbnow]

4. You're too right. So far

the only one that might be held accountable for a portion of what he did is Libby.

[bahrbearian]

11. and he knows he will be pardoned.

[fooj]

3. Sure. Move forward. Accountability be damned!

:grr:

[DainBramaged]

13. No no you have to look at it completely different than you do now

Wolfie is the number one guy now at the World Bank. This is one of the BFEE guys with his finger on the piggy bank! When it comes to disbursing money (loans) to the Third World, and especially for "RECONSTRUCTION PROJECTS" does the word Carlyle Group ring a bell?

The BFEE controls the US Government and the World Bank.

They can steal from the WORLD and they have a license to do so.

There is nothing we can do to stop them.

[MADem]

5. Wolfie is the poster boy for the phrase "Fuck Up, Move Up"

Mister Peter Principle, himself!

[noamnety]

6. Why waste our beautiful minds on the war?

A few thousand US troops dead over their mistake? Move along, let's not dwell on it.

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. For a man who fancies himself to be a great intellectual

he is one of the stupidest assholes on the planet.

[No Exit]

8. "So we had a little collateral damage. People, people! You're losing

sight of our goal, which is to make me and my friends richer!"

[gratuitous]

9. Sure Paul, I'll move forward; why don't you?

Move to the forward lines in Iraq and fight your own fucking war. Bring our sons, daughters, husbands, wives, mothers and fathers home and you can dwell on your new career as a human target. Think of it as a transitional post, one that will allow you to maintain very low visibility.

[arewenotdemo]

14. Exactly!

You know, there's been no shortage of war criminal scum in this maladministration, but Wolfowitz makes my very short list. How he ever rose to the position he did boggles the mind. Maybe the other scum (Rumsfeld) was impressed by his father's mathematics credentials or the Greenspan appearance.

But that fucker's a traitor to his country and deserves to hang for it.

[SCDem]

10. It's hard not to dwell on $5 billion a day

[norml]

15. Intelligence Design and the Architecture of War

Intelligence Design and the Architecture of War

By Dana Milbank

Thursday, December 8, 2005; Page A03

On another day when the Iraq war was tearing Washington apart, a leading architect of that war, Paul D. Wolfowitz, was donning sheep's clothing over at the National Press Club.

The former deputy defense secretary, now president of the World Bank, gave a 30-minute speech yesterday about the virtues of peace, the ills of poverty and the benefits of multilateralism -- without a mention of Iraq.



Paul D. Wolfowitz waits to address the National Press Club, where the former deputy secretary of defense spoke for 30 minutes without mentioning the Iraq war or his role in it. (By Chris Greenberg -- Bloomberg News)

Washington Sketch
A national political reporter for the Post, Milbank writes Washington Sketch, an observational column about political theater in the White House, Congress and elsewhere in the capital. He covered the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns and President Bush's first term. Before coming to the Post as a Style political writer in 2000, he covered the Clinton White House for the New Republic and Congress for the Wall Street Journal.

"One of the things that's fun about this job is development is a unifying mission and you can get a lot of people together across a table to put their political differences aside," said the man President Bush calls "Wolfie."

Only when questioners pressed him about Iraq would Wolfowitz address the subject. "How do you account for the intelligence failures regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?" he was asked.

"Well," he said after a long pause, "I don't have to."


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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/07/AR2005120702224.html