--- Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 16, 2005, at 9:35 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: > I am not picking a fight with you, but what is the > basis of this claim? > Maybe we have heard of him because he was a major > player in getting us > involved in Iraq. > > Dave, who really wants to know how you know that the > only reason anyone > has heard of Paul Wolfowitz is that he is Jewish. > > Dave
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? That's not a hostile questoin - I can't, and at least in theory, it's my job. I can't even name his replacement, and I've read articles about the man. DepSecs are not usually key players in decisions to go to war - not unless they're Dean Acheson (who wasn't actually one, I think, before WWII)! As far as I can tell, he _lost_ every major internal Administration battle, and we'd all be better off if he won them (I think - figuring out what actually happens within the Administration is essentially impossible, and anyone who's mortally certain what happened is, in my opinion, either lying or deluding themselves. No Administration in living memory has operated so close to the vest). But he has a nice Jewish name that you can hang conspiracy theories on. The major players in the foreign policy of the first Bush II Administration - Bush himself, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice - none of them are neocons. It would be better if they were - we probabl ywouldn't have screwed up the occupation so badly if they were. 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. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
