George W. Bush 'Made Bungles On Iraq', Says Paul Wolfowitz
TOBY HARNDEN From: The Times March 18, 2013 12:00AM
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THE former deputy Pentagon chief Paul Wolfowitz, a driving force behind the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, has conceded that a series of blunders by George W. Bush's administration plunged Iraq into a cycle of violence that "spiralled out of control".
In an interview with The Sunday Times, he said there "should have been Iraqi leadership from the beginning", rather than a 14-month occupation led by an American viceroy and based on "this idea that we're going to come in like (General Douglas) MacArthur in Japan and write the constitution for them".
He accepted that too many Iraqis were excluded by a program to purge members of the ruling Ba'ath party, that the dissolution of the Iraqi army was botched and that the "biggest hole" in post-war planning was not to anticipate the possibility of an insurgency.
"The most consequential failure was to understand the tenacity of Saddam's regime," he said.
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He portrayed the Bush administration as deeply divided and he was fiercely critical of Colin Powell, the then secretary of state.
It was "outrageous" and "a joke" for Genral Powell - who reportedly used to speak of a "Gestapo office" at the Pentagon - to have suggested the case for the Iraq War was concocted by Dr Wolfowitz and a cabal of fellow neoconservatives within the Bush administration, he said.
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Wolfowitz must have finally counted that last 'pallet' of US $$$ that went missing in Iraq as it seems this war criminal creep has crawled out from under his rock.
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