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Monday, September 29, 2003
Rummy, Wolfowitz and targets "[W]e are not in Iraq to engage in nation building our mission is to help the Iraqi so that they can build their own nation," United States Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday. (Thanks to Tapped for alerting me to the quote.) Makes sense to me. The U.S. doesn't aim to spend money in Iraq or try to control that country after all. *** Deputy Defense Secretary for Uncle Sam Paul Wolfowitz was recently interviewed by Janine Zacharia of the Jerusalem Post. "Iraq is in many ways a kind of special case that was sort of forced on us to use military force, because of the threat it posed," Wolfowitz said without clarifying what the threat was. "I certainly wouldn’t have advocated it. I don’t know that I know many people who would have advocated using military force simply to create a democracy in Iraq." Court Schuett recently criticized me for saying that generosity was not the motivation for the U.S. taking over Iraq. Fortunately Wolfowitz has responded for me. Of course he could be lying about the motivation but if that is the case, I suspect that "democracy" isn't really what they are after. Also in the interview, Zacharia and Wolfowitz got into the following exchange: Q: Getting back to the Iraq question, the question of Syria and sort of what the –I'd say Zacharia should have tried to get a clarification with regard to what Syria is doing with regard to Iraq, but I don't want to look like I missed the revealing nature of the exchange. Of course I have a hard time seeing why Syria isn't a threat by Team Bush's standards. *** |