Word: wolfowitzes
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...RICE checks out, her job too is up for grabs--but only to those who meet two qualifications. They must get along with Bush, and they must win the O.K. of the Vice President. Paul Wolfowitz meets both tests, and the job is a good landing place for him if he leaves Defense, since it does not require Senate confirmation. Also in the running is I. LEWIS (Scooter) LIBBY, Dick Cheney's chief of staff and another Pentagon veteran. The dark-horse candidate is ROBERT BLACKWILL, a hard-nosed dealmaker who has quietly handled Iraqi policy in the past year...
...course, invading Iraq was a pre-9/11 pet project of the administration’s neocons, repackaged as a response to the al Qaeda attacks. During his confirmation hearing, Paul Wolfowitz told the Senate Armed Services Committee he “would certainly think it was worthwhile” for the U.S. to invade Iraq to achieve regime change. In those heady early days of Bush’s reign, Wolfowitz and fellow administration neocons Armitage, Perle and Rumsfeld tirelessly pushed for the U.S. to arm and lead an Iraqi opposition in toppling Saddam...
...Tony Blair (Gertrude); and, I guess, Hamlet is Iraq, not sure how it should act under the new occupation. Or Hamlet?s father is George Bush 41, who urges Bush 43 (Hamlet) to heed the relative moderation and international coalition-building of his own reign and throw over Cheney, Wolfowitz and the rest of the neocon faction (Claudius) that have usurped the kingdom. This game can be played till metaphorical exhaustion, or November 2nd, whichever comes first...
...Take people like Paul Wolfowitz, who said we’re going to need 50,000 troops to win the war or control Baghdad,” Nye said. “Now he’ll seem a little less credible...
...Arafat remains Arafat, the horse Palestinians count on to win the competition. And Palestinians will not replace him in the middle of the race—especially not under pressure from anyone whose understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was shaped by pro-Israel cheerleaders like Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Douglas Feith...