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Donald Rumsfeld may get sacked for his recent blunders over the torture of prisoners in Iraq, but perhaps Bush will find himself a more idealistic pickâsay, Paul Wolfowitz...
...down. A year ago, U.S. Central Command was saying the 150,000 troops needed for the initial invasion could be reduced to 30,000 by last September. Then by Christmas the new goal was to reduce the force to 105,000 by spring. Now, concedes Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, the arrow is pointing up. "The debate is about whether to keep 135,000 troops there or to add more," he told the Senate Armed Services Committee. Warning that tensions may only grow with the approach of June 30, the day the U.S. plans to return sovereignty to Iraq, General...
...bidders. Major General Charles Swannack Jr., commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, says that when his troops left Iraq in January, the Iraqis under their command were still waiting for their gear. "It never came on my watch," he says. Testifying before Congress last week, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz blasted Washington "bureaucracy" for the Iraqis' lack of firepower. "A lot of the equipment problems, frankly, are an embarrassment to the United States of America," he said. Says retired General Barry McCaffrey, who commanded an Army division during Gulf War I: "The money, the equipment and the uniforms have...
...payout, saying, "We are nickel-and-diming the I.N.C. when they are providing critical intelligence" on Iraq's WMD. Oversight of Chalabi's information operation was shifted from the skeptics at State to the Pentagon, where his champions included Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz...
Sure, it would have been nice if Bush had said, "Yes, we erred. Perhaps we should not have disbanded the Iraqi army." Would saying that have won him praise for his candor? Not in the poisoned climate of Washington today. Last July, Rumsfeld's deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, returned from Iraq with a balanced and honest assessment of what the allies had done right and wrong in the immediate postwar period. What was the next morning's Washington Post headline? WOLFOWITZ GIVES NUANCED ASSESSMENT OF IRAQ SITUATION? No. WOLFOWITZ CONCEDES IRAQ ERRORS, followed by a brief for the Administration's critics...