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Views from a dimension that Dubya attacks—reality!
In the Guardian/UK article, of June 4, 2003, “Wolfowitz: Iraq War Was About Oil”, by George Wright this quote, “The US Deputy Defense Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz - who has already undermined Tony Blair's position over weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by describing them as a "bureaucratic" excuse for war - has now gone further by claiming the real motive was that Iraq is "swimming" in oil, shows less than what you’d expect from the man who would “return honor and dignity to the White House”.
Wolfowitz thought this was such a cute phrase, and contrasted Iraq with North Korea as he elaborated, “"Let's look at it simply. The most important difference between North Korea and Iraq is that economically, we just had no choice in Iraq. The country swims on a sea of oil."
The just mentioned undermining of Tony Blair's position over WMD is fleshed out in an interview with Vanity Fair magazine on May 9th. At that time Wolfowitz, appeared to minimize the importance of WMD in this quote, "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," he said, according to a Pentagon transcript in which he stressed other justifications for the war.”
So, they dummied down the rationale for the Iraq war, so that Dubya could win votes for it. The Guardian was intimidated and removed the article of June 4, 2003, “Wolfowitz: Iraq War Was About Oil” from their website and posted the following, “A report which was posted on our website on June 4 under the heading "Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil" misconstrued remarks made by the US deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, making it appear that he had said that oil was the main reason for going to war in Iraq. He did not say that. He said, according to the Department of Defence website, "The ... difference between North Korea and Iraq is that we had virtually no economic options with Iraq because the country floats on a sea of oil. In the case of North Korea, the country is teetering on the edge of economic collapse and that I believe is a major point of leverage whereas the military picture with North Korea is very different from that with Iraq."
It seems like the nitpicking drivel that the “leader of the free world who doesn’t do nuances”, with his vaunted “moral clarity” would never subject his loving US populace with! Later Wolfowitz predicted that Iraq would rapidly be able to pay for its repair to its infrastructure with the huge oil profits. He had to back away from that also.
In an August 2, 2003 article “ The sheep turn on Wolfie--US senators are pressing for some straight answers about security”, Maureen Dowd writes, “The military and rehabilitation efforts now under way in Iraq are an essential part of the war on terror," Wolfowitz proclaimed, capitalising the "W" and the "T" in his written testimony, and underlining the sentence for those too dim to understand its importance.
Brazening out the failure to find the Saddam-al-Qaida links and weapons of mass destruction, Wolfowitz has simply done an Orwellian fan dance, covering up the lack of concrete ties to the 9/11 terrorists with feathery assertions that securing "the peace in Iraq is now the central battle in the war on terror".
From Meet The Press of March 16th, 2003 the quotes:
“Tricky Dick 2” Cheney: My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.
From Meet The Press of September 14th, 2003 the quotes:
Mr. Russert: The Washington Post asked the American people about Saddam Hussein, and this is what they said: 69 percent said he was involved in the September 11 attacks. Are you surprised by that?”
Cheney: No. I think it’s not surprising that people make that connection.
Mr. Russert: But is there a connection?
Cheney: We don’t know.
On CNN Aaron Brown’s NEWSNIGHT of September 17, 2003 this quote:
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