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...these initiatives all the way, "taking it upon himself," as a top adviser put it, to make the hard-line national-security case to the President. Cheney didn't lose every fight, but he was no longer winning them all either. And his backup vanished. Pentagon official Paul Wolfowitz moved to the World Bank in early 2005. Libby was indicted in October of that year and left the government. John Bolton resigned his post as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. the same month Rumsfeld left the Pentagon in 2006. Cheney's allies no longer manned the key points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Bush and Cheney's Final Days | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

...plainly the case in Tom Ricks' gritty volume on the surge phase of the Iraq war. Generals David Petraeus and Ray Odierno are the flawed but authentic heroes who pushed through a strategy to suppress Iraq's festering civil war; the losers are warlords like Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz, who agitated for the invasion and then lost control over its outcome through naiveté or ineptitude. Much of the Beltway intrigue here was reported by Ricks' Washington Post colleague Bob Woodward in last year's The War Within. Military strategies--even successful ones--are, like laws and sausages, not something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Victories and Defeats — in Washington | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank, invited Gramm in Friday to make his case and take some questions. The crowd was heavy on the conservative Washington notables - Cato Institute chairman emeritus William Niskanen, McCain campaign talking head Nancy Pfotenhauer and Iraq War architect Paul Wolfowitz were three that I recognized. But rabble off the street were welcome as well. (Read a critique of Phil Gramm's explanation of the financial crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phil Gramm Says the Banking Crisis Is (Mostly) Not His Fault | 1/24/2009 | See Source »

...President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz were conspicuously absent from Shinseki's retirement ceremony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Eric Shinseki | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...notion that it would take several hundred thousand American troops just seems outlandish."- Former Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, on Shinsaki's estimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Eric Shinseki | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

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