LIES CARD #22
Paul Wolfowitz, US Deputy Secretary of Defense

WEAPONS:  

AGGRESSION.  MANIPULATION.  EVASION.   WORLD'S LARGEST NATIONAL ECONOMY. 

INCREASED POWERS WHEN COMBINED WITH:

7. DONNIE RUMSFELD

KNOWN ALIASES:

"THE GODFATHER OF THE IRAQ WAR"

KNOWN BATTLE MANUEVERS:

"There's a lot of money to pay for this, it doesn't have to be U.S. taxpayer money, we are dealing with a country that can really finance it's own reconstruction, and relatively soon." March 2003 to House Appropriations Committee. So far the U.S. Senate has approved $87 billion of U.S. taxpayer money for operations in Iraq.

"I would like to respond to recent commentary, some of it quite outlandish, about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq.  I am reluctant to predict anything about what the cost of a possible conflict in Iraq would be, or what the possible cost of reconstructing and stabilizing that country afterwards might be. But some of the higher end predictions that we have been hearing recently, such as the notion that it will take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq, are wildly off the mark." - Feb. 2003 speaking to the House Budget Committee

"Fundamentally we have no idea what is needed unless and until we get there on the ground. This delicate moment when we are assembling a coalition, when we are mobilizing people inside Iraq and throughout the region to help us in the event of war, and when we are still trying, through the United Nations and by other means, to achieve a peaceful solution without war-is not a good time to publish highly suspect numerical estimates." - Feb. 2003

"For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, [as justification for invading Iraq] because it was the one reason everyone could agree on."
- Paul Wolfowitz, Vanity Fair interview, May 28, 2003