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...Wolfowitz added that complaints about the postwar mess reminded him of the fleeting wartime controversy over troop levels and strategy. He may be right. The situation in Iraq could improve. But there is a larger problem that Wolfowitz refused to acknowledge: we are involved in a long-term occupation of a country that detests non-Muslim occupiers. He hinted at this once, when he was reminded that he had disputed, as "wildly off the mark," Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki's prewar prediction that "several hundred thousand" troops would be needed to pacify Iraq. Wolfowitz said he took "several...
...figure out, among other things, how we came to the questionable conclusion that Saddam Hussein possessed massive stocks of illegal weapons. The CIA will surely look into the activities of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, an intelligence nodule created by Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, to provide a hawkish counterforce against the other spy services. The Pentagon's extreme threat assessment, which relied heavily on dubious reports from Iraqi defectors, carried the day in the White House...
...There was some good news: the French and Russians finally allowed the U.N. to lift economic sanctions on Iraq. And some not-so-good news the same day: Wolfowitz visited the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and was a study in subdued opacity when it came to the Iraq reconstruction plan. In fairness, he wasn't pressed very hard by the Senators, who apparently find precise questions, unlike imprecise speeches, an unnecessary act of self-abnegation. Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel was an exception. He asked, simply: Why was former General Jay Garner so quickly replaced by former diplomat L. Paul Bremer...
...time, the Bush Administration was insisting that Iraq would quickly be turned over to the Iraqis. That is no longer the plan: Wolfowitz acknowledged that it will be years before a fully functioning national government is elected. "When is the President going to tell the American people that we're likely to be in the country of Iraq for three...six, eight, 10 years with thousands of forces and billions of dollars?" Joe Biden of Delaware asked. "They have not been told. They were not told before we went in. And you knew we were going to have to stay...
...Wolfowitz replied, mildly, that it's difficult to predict such things. True enough, but I also sense a certain presidential reluctance to tell us what our Federal Government is facing in Iraq - or to admit that his Federal Government may have hyped what this was all about in the first place...