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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-22-03 12:03 AM
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Wolfowitz Stands Fast Amid the Antiwarriors
Paul D. Wolfowitz plunged into a bastion of antiwar liberalism — Greenwich Village — yesterday to voice a vigorous defense of the Bush administration's Iraq policy.

In an often raucous 90-minute forum at the New School University, Mr. Wolfowitz alternately chided the audience for not giving the administration enough credit for toppling Saddam Hussein's brutal government, and took pains to explain the rationale for the war and the costly, difficult future in rebuilding Iraq.

"No one that I know of would ever say that this war is cheap or easy," he said. "The stakes here are enormous."

But Mr. Wolfowitz, considered by many to be the main intellectual architect of the Iraq war, was facing a tough crowd of 500 people, dominated by students, faculty and others who were clearly skeptical, if not outright hostile, to the American-led war in Iraq and its messy aftermath.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/22/international/22WOLF.html
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-22-03 12:38 AM
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1. gotta love those perfect circle lyrics.
wolfowitz should have been made to suffer more.
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maggrwaggr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-22-03 12:51 AM
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2. I want the first lampost reserved for Wolfowitz
and I hope it takes him a long time to go.

And the sooner he's swinging in the air, the better
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FlemingsGhost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-22-03 12:57 AM
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3. Hear! Hear!
No quick break of the neck, for any of 'em.
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-22-03 03:27 AM
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4. damn, I wish I knew about this...
definetely would've shown up...



what a creep!
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