The Fiasco
The invasion of Iraq is a distraction from the global war on terrorism. By fraudulently linking Iraq and al Qaeda; Bush was able to carry out an agenda, which was first revealed by Paul Wolfowitz in 1992.
Donald Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were among 18 signatures on a letter to President Clinton in 1998, which urged a preemptive war against Saddam Hussein. Of the eighteen signers of that letter; eleven held post in the Bush administration, when Iraq was invaded. Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill confirms that ten days after Bush's inauguration in 2001, the focus of the National Security Council meeting was the invasion of Iraq.
As Rumsfeld’s Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz insisted the estimate by Gen. Shinseki that several hundred thousand troops would be needed in postwar Iraq was "widely off the mark." He also claimed: "There was no history of ethnic strife in Iraq”.
Furthermore, he insisted that the idea that the cost of war and reconstruction might be $100 billion was too high. Last year, Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and Linda Bilmes estimated that the "true costs" of the war will eventually be more than $1 trillion, and possibly more than $2 trillion. Their study includes both direct and indirect costs of the war, which our nation will have to shoulder for generations.
Early in 2004, Paul Wolfowitz testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Senator Hillary Clinton asked Wolfowitz “Why should we believe your assurances now?...When it comes to making estimates or predictions about what will occur in Iraq, and what will be the costs in lives and money...you have made numerous predictions, time and time again that have turned out to be untrue and were based on faulty assumptions.”
In the best selling book “Fiasco”, Thomas Ricks reports that after his confrontation with Senator Clinton, a friend of Wolfowitz said that he began to worry that he would be scapegoated for Iraq. The Commander in Chief has and will continue to have the ultimate responsibility for the fiasco in Iraq. In fact, Bush’s entire presidency has been a complete and ignominious failure.
Donald Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were among 18 signatures on a letter to President Clinton in 1998, which urged a preemptive war against Saddam Hussein. Of the eighteen signers of that letter; eleven held post in the Bush administration, when Iraq was invaded. Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill confirms that ten days after Bush's inauguration in 2001, the focus of the National Security Council meeting was the invasion of Iraq.
As Rumsfeld’s Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz insisted the estimate by Gen. Shinseki that several hundred thousand troops would be needed in postwar Iraq was "widely off the mark." He also claimed: "There was no history of ethnic strife in Iraq”.
Furthermore, he insisted that the idea that the cost of war and reconstruction might be $100 billion was too high. Last year, Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and Linda Bilmes estimated that the "true costs" of the war will eventually be more than $1 trillion, and possibly more than $2 trillion. Their study includes both direct and indirect costs of the war, which our nation will have to shoulder for generations.
Early in 2004, Paul Wolfowitz testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Senator Hillary Clinton asked Wolfowitz “Why should we believe your assurances now?...When it comes to making estimates or predictions about what will occur in Iraq, and what will be the costs in lives and money...you have made numerous predictions, time and time again that have turned out to be untrue and were based on faulty assumptions.”
In the best selling book “Fiasco”, Thomas Ricks reports that after his confrontation with Senator Clinton, a friend of Wolfowitz said that he began to worry that he would be scapegoated for Iraq. The Commander in Chief has and will continue to have the ultimate responsibility for the fiasco in Iraq. In fact, Bush’s entire presidency has been a complete and ignominious failure.
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