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...Deputy's Decisions Your article "The Godfather of the Iraq War," about Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz [Dec. 29-Jan. 5], contained some false and unfair criticism of him. Recently the Administration decided to allow U.S.-taxpayer dollars to fund prime contractors only from the U.S., Iraq, other coalition partners and nations contributing forces to the effort in Iraq. This was a correct, principled decision and was approved by the President and all members of his national-security team. To lay any criticism of this decision at Wolfowitz's doorstep is unfair. He is an important member...
...Although you described Wolfowitz as an "intellectual" and the first to push Bush to topple Saddam after 9/11, he has surely not mastered the subject of history [Dec. 29-Jan. 5]. If he had been in one of the history classes that I taught, he would have learned how democracy took root in England in 1215 with the Magna Carta and developed over the course of centuries. He would have studied the French Revolution and the travails of that country as it struggled to emerge as the France of today. Does Wolfowitz realize how difficult it is to bring democracy...
...Lose Friends And Alienate People" [Dec. 22], Michael Elliott wrote about Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz's memo stipulating that only firms from coalition-force countries can win prime contracts to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure. By having Wolfowitz sign and release this memo, President Bush was ensuring the continued loyalty of those in the Republican Party who subscribe to a unilateralist foreign policy. Having secured this support, Bush can now occupy the middle ground. The political nuances at play here are highly sophisticated. The President is always discounted as a political neophyte, but in truth he is extremely clever. ANDREAS...
Elliott was wrong in arguing that Wolfowitz's memo would cause a diplomatic row just before presidential envoy James Baker III visited Europe on a mission to reduce Iraq's debt to other countries. The memo was clearly a hardball negotiating tactic. Faced with this threat, France and Germany finally relented and agreed to forgive some of Iraq's debt. In the end, the U.S. will reconsider the policy on contracts in Iraq. Apparently, Elliott knows nothing of real-world negotiations. MORGAN CONRAD Montara, Calif...
...Rummy and Wolfie show may soon go off the air. It is widely believed in national-security circles that Wolfowitz may leave the Administration sometime in 2004. He has become too controversial for Bush to promote to Defense Secretary; Wolfowitz believed that U.S. troops in Iraq would be greeted with rose petals. He remains unbowed about the postwar effort. "I'd like to know, among those people who say we should have had better plans, just which plan they had in mind that would have prevented the murderers and torturers that raped and abused that country for 35 years from...