WOLFOWITZ'S BIG MOUTH
Downplay of WMDs Infuriates Europe

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz cited bureaucratic reasons for focusing on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, and said a "huge" result of the war was to enable Washington to withdraw its troops from Saudi Arabia.

"The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason," Wolfowitz was quoted as saying in a Pentagon transcript of an interview with Vanity Fair.

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One of the few things these days that keeps me from becoming infuriated, myself, is keeping my mind occupied wondering how Americans are able to take in stride these gradual revelations of Bush's Iraq war lies. No Iraqi links to al-Qaeda have been found. No WMDs have been found. The Private Lynch rescue was staged. There was no bunker where U.S. planes targeted Saddam at the beginning of the war. Dick Cheney's company, Halliburton, has raked in the reconstruction cash from no-bid sweetheart deals with the Pentagon. The oil companies have earned massive windfall profits due to war jitters driving up the price of oil. All of these facts have made it onto the front pages of most US newspapers. Yet, the American people collectively yawn. No outrage (except from a few Democratic politicians; bully for them). No calls for investigations of the White House. Nothing.

I'm really starting to believe what I've been saying about television and air conditioning induced mass hypnosis. What else can explain it?

One of these links came from J. Orlin Grabbe.

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