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...alleged WMD, the problem is that the evidence on which the administration's case was based has either failed to materialize, or in some cases simply been negated. And among those "revising" the history of the Iraq campaign to deemphasize the importance WMD is Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, ostensibly the war's intellectual author...
...during searches of villages in Iraq's Baath party heartland, America has suffered an average of a soldier killed in combat every other day since President Bush on May 1 declared an end to hostilities in Iraq. The situation is getting so bad that Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz on Wednesday told legislators on Capitol Hill that the U.S. now faces what he termed a "guerrilla war" in Iraq...
...Bush aides in particular, Rumsfeld and his Pentagon deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, have a long record of questioning the assumptions, methods and conclusions of the CIA. Wolfowitz was a member of the famous B Team, created in the mid-'70s by the CIA, then headed by Bush's father, to double-check the work of the CIA's line analysts about the military strength of the Soviet Union. Filled with many hard-liners who now work in the younger Bush's Administration, the B Team was spoiling back then for bigger defense budgets and a more aggressive foreign policy. It found...
...Wolfowitz replied, mildly, that it's difficult to predict such things. True enough, but I also sense a certain presidential reluctance to tell us what our Federal Government is facing in Iraq--or to admit that his Federal Government may have hyped what this was all about in the first place...
...truth is, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction." PAUL WOLFOWITZ, Deputy Defense Secretary, on why the U.S. government focused on WMDs to justify war in Iraq...