--- Ritu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > What makes you say he _was_ a major player in > getting > > us involved? He was the Deputy Secretary of > Defense. > > Can you name the Deputy Secretary of a single > other > > Department? > > Have any other Deputy Secretaries given major > interviews on the most > controversial topic of the day? Until I read this > thread I had no idea > that Wolfie was a Jew, but I remember him basically > because of his > statement that the administration went ahead with > the WMD > rationalisation/charges because it seemed to be the > most convenient way > to garner support for the invasion of Iraq. It was > the Vanity Fair > interview, and if I recall correctly, he also said > that the invasion of > Iraq would undercut AQ propaganda because it would > enable the US to > withdraw it troops from SA.
Yes, of course. Everybody in the Administration supported the war, Ritu. It was sort of a job requirement. The others just don't get the same amount of press. > > > The > > _only_ below-Cabinet rank figures of any > significance > > most people have ever heard of are Wolfowitz and > > Richard Perle. One guess as to what they have in > common. > > *That* I know! They were both very visible and vocal > in their support > for the invasion of Iraq. Perle gave countless > interviews describing > Saddam's Iraq as a terrorist state, but what I > recall the best about him > is the fact that he admitted that the invasion was > illegal. I sincerely doubt this, since it, well, _wasn't_. I think you may be misremembering. Perle is not a lawyer, of course, so he might have made a mistake. > > And all that stuff about Wolfie not being a major > player is well and > good from the point of view of administrative > details but it certainly > doesn't support your contention that the only reason > people have heard > of them is because they are Jews [that is if Perle > is a Jew...?]. > > Ritu He is. He's also an administration official to about the same extent I am - he's an unpaid member of the Defense Policy Review Board, a purely advisory capacity. But he is a Jewish conservative - another person people can claim has betrayed the US in favor of Israel. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail for Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
