Paul Wolfowitz Quotes
I don’t see why it would take more troops to occupy the country than to take down the regime.
Paul Wolfowitz, Undersecretary of Defense (Republican), Assistant Secretary of State, Quoted in Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco- The American Military Adventure in Iraq
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During the Iraq War, the Congressman partially changed his mind the following year and called for a plan to move American troops to the periphery of the fighting. A highly decorated war hero with two Purple Hearts, he was then called a coward, by some Republican members of Congress and the Bush Administration—almost always by people who had never served in the military and often sought and obtained deferments.
The Vice President was one of the architects of and advocates for the Iraq War. To garner public support he (and the others supporting the war) claimed that Iraq had developed weapons of mass destruction and made a serious of predictions about the war. He was wrong on all counts. There were no WMDs, none were even being developed, and we needed hundreds of thousands of troops for a decade as we were not greeted as liberators but the vast majority of our casualties and deaths in Iraq came after the invasion was successful and the population showed very hostile to U. S. occupation and our governing policies.
See a similar sentiment by Tallyrand
3 years later he led America on a huge invasion and nation building project in Iraq. It turned out that had he listened to his own advice and not flip-flopped, the huge cost of the Iraq War might have been avoided.
He was the spokesperson for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the Administration’s Iraq War effort. It has never been ascertained whether the George W. Bush Administration was deliberately lying about the Iraq invasion or whether they were terribly naïve and not very competent.
Paul Dundes Wolfowitz is an American political scientist and diplomat who served as the 10th President of the World Bank, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, and former dean of Johns Hopkins SAIS. He is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
