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This is not the Paul Wolfowitz the world is used to seeing. On a lush hillside in Rwanda last week, Wolfowitz - the über-hawk, the architect of the Iraq war, the embodiment of everything that the Bush Administration's critics find detestable about U.S. foreign policy - was talking about coffee. Standing beside tables of drying coffee under the beating sun, Wolfowitz, just two weeks into his new role as president of the World Bank, picked up a bean and asked a worker how he could tell that it was a good one. It's the color, the man said...
...word reconstruction implies the war is over and you are simply trying to rebuild ... It marginally applies to Afghanistan. But it doesn't apply to Iraq." PAUL WOLFOWITZ, new World Bank president, who as U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary was a leading proponent of the Iraq invasion, on the challenges of rebuilding the country...
...stakes were high indeed. "This is an election where everything will be risked--life, liberty and honor," proclaimed Salvador ("Doy") Laurel, a major opposition candidate for the presidency. "You will have to kill us in order to cheat us." In Washington, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Paul D. Wolfowitz said before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee that dishonest elections might cause a "disaster of large and indefinable proportions...
...Deputy Defense Secretary and who could face confirmation hearings as early as this week. Now that Rumsfeld is pushing plans to transform the Defense Department into a leaner, more agile fighting machine, he wants a deputy with more business savvy to see those programs completed. England's predecessor, Paul Wolfowitz, preferred strategizing grand operations like the Iraq war over managing the nuts and bolts of the department, which is what a deputy defense chief traditionally does. England, a seasoned defense-industry exec who helped develop the F-16 fighter, isn't a neocon ideologue like Wolfowitz and has cultivated warmer...
...PAUL WOLFOWITZ, a former Deputy Defense Secretary and a chief architect of the Iraq war, upon his confirmation as president of the World Bank, stressing his intention to be more collaborative