Hi to everybody...have finally got around to reading the Sunday Independent and interesting if really frightening article of faces involved in the Iraq War five years on....
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/where-are-they-now-the-faces-of-the-iraq-war-five-years-on-796727.html
This is a very alarming one...
PAUL WOLFOWITZ
Paul Wolfowitz was a prime intellectual architect of a war he had advocated since the early 1990s. He has been a lifelong supporter of Israel, and a believer in "pre-emptive" war. Like many neocons, he saw democratic government in Baghdad, spreading across the Arab world, as the best guarantee of Israel's security. Alas, management and good judgement were not his strong suits. As deputy to Rumsfeld, he shared his boss's belief that a small force would be sufficient, and argued that reconstruction would be paid for by Iraq's oil revenues. Wolfowitz left the administration in 2005 to become President of the World Bank. His tenure ended in disgrace in June 2007, amid charges he had used his position to arrange a promotion for his girlfriend. He is now a scholar at the neocon think-tank the American Enterprise Institute. Rupert Cornwell.
Alongside another one who is still in a position of power and his plans!!!
DICK CHENEY
"Dick Cheney I don't know any more," said Brent Scowcroft, his colleague, on the transformation of a cautious, moderate Defense Secretary in the first Gulf war into the leader of the hawks against Saddam second time round. As perhaps the most influential US Vice-President ever, Cheney was scaremonger-in-chief before the war, warning that Saddam had "reconstituted his nuclear weapons". Like Donald Rumsfeld, he's not so much a neocon as a "Hobbesian nationalist", believing the US must do what it takes to protect itself – thus his disdain for the UN, support for torture and belief in a powerful presidency. Despite the loss of his chief of staff, Lewis Libby (convicted of perjury in 2007), and huge unpopularity, Cheney is still powerful. He is a leading advocate of military strikes against Iran.Rupert Cornwell.
Halliburton is his company and he's made an absolute fortune with his contracts in Iraq.
Just mind boggling when you think about the pre-planning that went in to getting both these men into positions of power...and there can be no disputing they both planned their ascent with the backing of people who would stop at nothing to get rid of Saddam Hussein and soon Iraq's nuclear facilities...I guess it's a matter of watch this space because, if Obama wins the Presidency, he's not going to bomb Iraq, so we must presume that Cheney with Israel intends to do this prior to his election and leave him to pick up the mess....
