Word: wolfowitzes
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...Sept. 15, 2001, President Bush summoned his top national-security advisers to Camp David to plot America's retaliation for the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington. As the group began to hammer out a strategy for war against the Taliban, Paul Wolfowitz, the 57-year-old Deputy Defense Secretary, took a different tack. An Afghan war in his view had the makings of a quagmire. The larger threat to American security was sitting not in a cave in Afghanistan but in a Baghdad bunker. And so, just four days after Sept. 11, Wolfowitz urged Bush...
When Bush needed a new national-security strategy for the post-9/11 world, he turned to Cheney, who had been carrying one around in his briefcase for a decade. As Secretary of Defense, Cheney had commissioned two top aides, Paul Wolfowitz and I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, to draw up a plan to reorient U.S. defense policy after the cold war. When word of the strategy was leaked, its muscular call for the U.S. to prevent the rise of hostile powers and act pre-emptively against states developing weapons of mass destruction was met with an uproar in the foreign...
Even with close associates, Cheney doesn't tell stories out of the Oval Office. Wolfowitz says he can't describe the evolution of Cheney's thinking on Iraq, "because he is so tight-lipped and careful, I still don't know from the end of the last war what his positions were." Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona considers himself Cheney's friend and a fellow conservative hawk. "Every time I talk to him and I make a pitch about something, he'll say, 'O.K.'" says Kyl. "And you don't know what he's going to do with the information...
...military action in Britain." - By Andrew Purvis. With reporting by Helen Gibson/London and Senad Slatina/Sarajevo ISLAMIC OPINION New Best Friends With all the subtlety of a jackhammer, the U.S. and its allies mounted a charm offensive on Muslims ahead of a possible war in Iraq. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz traveled to Turkey to secure support for an attack on Saddam Hussein's regime, offering to write off at least $6 billion of military debt and an undisclosed amount of other aid in return. Then, even as British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw arrived for talks on Ankara's application...
...Administration is continuing its military buildup, scheduling massive exercises from a new Gulf command center in Qatar and pressing allies for support. But when Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz met with Turkey's foreign minister on Tuesday, he was told that country would allow the U.S. to use all-important bases to attack Iraq's northern flank only if a military intervention had been authorized by the UN Security Council. Foreign Minister Yasar Yakis went to great length to emphasize that Turkey believes a war would require a new UN resolution. And the Security Council is unlikely to even consider...