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PNAC member of the week: Paul Wolfowitz |
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2-16-04 |
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I think all foreigners should stop
interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and
help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.
Paul
D. Wolfowitz, qtd. in The
New York Times, 22 July 2003 |
| Time Magazine person of the
year 2003 (2) |
| Wolfowitz has ties to
defense contractor Northrop Grumman. He is also on the board of the Washington
Institute for Near East Policy and is a former Dean at the Paul H.
Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins
University, Wolfowitz is currently listed as an instructor at the
school.(3) |
| Wolfowitz is currently
United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, second in charge of the defense
department, under the US Secretary of Defense, Donald
Rumsfeld. |
| A military
analyst under Ronald Reagan, Wolfowitz was later a leading participant in
the Project
for the New American Century. That think tank formed in 1997 during
the Clinton presidency, and expressed a new foreign policy with regard to Iraq
and other "potential aggressor states", dismissing
"containment" in favor of "preemption"; strike first
to eliminate threats. |
| Clinton, along
with George H. W. Bush, Colin Powell, and other former Bush administration
officials, dismissed calls for "preemption" in favor of
continued "containment." This was the policy of George W. Bush
as well for his first several months in office. Many saw Wolfowitz's plan
as a "blueprint for US hegemony" and his "preemption"
policy remained contained until the terrorist attacks of September 11
revived hawkish advocacy for defending by attacking. (1) |
from: October 9, 2001:
Wolfowitz should be fired. He is a menace and one of
the most dangerous men in the world as long as you let him play
Defense Secretary. HE MUST BE FIRED!!
Excerpt:
Why is Wolfowitz so maniacal about Iraq? Remember that in
1991 he was the senior member of the network created by the late
Albert Wohlstetter in the Bush administration, working for
then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. in 1975 Albert was
masterminding the strategic victory over the USSR from his office at the
RAND corporation in Santa Monica and his seat at the President’s
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB). In 1991, the more senior
Richard Perle had left the government to make megabucks as a consultant
to foreign governments (Turkey being the most generous at $800K per
year). So Wohlstetter gave Wolfowitz, next in line, the assignment of
persuading Cheney to not only kick Saddam out of Kuwait, but also to
chase him all the way to Baghdad, slaughtering the Republican Guard on
the way. (4)
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| Wolfowitz had
advocated the use of US ground troops to carve out pieces of Iraqi
territory, telling The New Republic in December of 1999: 'It will take
American forces to create a protected area in which opposition forces can
organize and to which units from Saddam's army can defect.' Gen. Anthony
Zinni, commander of American forces in the Persian Gulf, called such plans
'a Bay of Goats' scenario." (5) |
| Wolfowitz gave
an interview to CNN-Turk, a joint venture of CNN and a Turkish media
conglomerate. When asked about the future of U.S.-Turkish relations,
Wolfowitz said that if Turkey wanted to get back into America's good
graces, the Turks would have to admit they were wrong to deny the U.S.
permission to use their territory as a staging ground for invading Iraq
and, in essence, apologize.(6) |
| Wolfowitz
blocked China hosted summit on North Korea in 1980s: documents (7) |
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Care and Feeding of Dictators
Wolfowitz's career is a textbook example of
Cold War politics that focused for nearly 50 years on the care and
feeding of dictators like Suharto, Chun Doo-hwan in South Korea, and
Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. While there were differences in
nuance between presidents, these policies remained remarkably consistent
from administration to administration. Where Wolfowitz and the Reagan
Republicans departed from the Democrats was in their public stance
toward these unsavory figures.
East Timor was invaded and occupied in 1975
by Indonesia with US weapons - a security policy backed and partly
shaped by Holbrooke and Wolfowitz.
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