Wolfowitz: "An Evil, Vicious Bunch" (not the Bush administration)

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155089,00.html

BAIER: While there's a transitional government, there's also a spike recently in the insurgency. Almost 1,600 troops have been killed so far. Do you have any regrets about the advice you provided before the war?

WOLFOWITZ: Well, I have — I think we provided some advice that would have been better followed earlier. I mean, we in the civilian side of this department argued before the war on the importance of training Iraqi — what we called them free Iraqi forces. We could have used more of those people. And we should have started ramping them up the day we got there.

But look, the real reason this is difficult is not because of, quote, "mistakes" that were made, as though somehow — I don't know if the American people have come to think war is, you know, something you orchestrate down to the last detail perfectly. If they think it's like Kosovo, that's very misleading.

Difficult ones are fought against difficult, awful enemies. And in this case, we're still fighting the people who abused, and tortured, and murdered in that country for 35 years. And they dug in, in a lot of ways. And they're an evil, vicious bunch, which is why they resort to bombing innocent civilians.

[ET Awful]

1. So how many innocent civilians have died from US bombs Paulie?

How many people have been tortured under US authority through the justifications provided by Alberto Gonzales and friends?

[pie]

2. Whatever the number, Paulie wishes it were higher

[ljm2002]

3. "If they think it's like Kosovo"...

This paragraph:

"But look, the real reason this is difficult is not because of, quote, "mistakes" that were made, as though somehow — I don't know if the American people have come to think war is, you know, something you orchestrate down to the last detail perfectly. If they think it's like Kosovo, that's very misleading."

So, he's implying that Kosovo was "orchestrate down to the last detail perfectly." -- and manages to make it a dig at Clinton anyway -- because after all, *our* bad guys are "difficult, awful enemies", "an evil, vicious bunch" -- not like those nice Kosovo enemies, dontchaknow.

gaak.

[HawkerHurricane]

4. I like how he gets a dig in on the military planners...

you know, the ones who said you need 3x as many troops as you planned to use...

Wolf, you're an amatuer and it shows.

[dkofos]

5. I think I would puke in his face if he did the comb thing in front of me!!

[trof]

6. Wolfowitz plays the comb?

Man...dudes got him some soul, hunh?
;-)

[The Quizzical Toad]

7. Wolfowitz knows all about evil, viscious people.

After all, he is one. :eyes: