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Friday, 12/09/2005 1:37:59 AM

Friday, December 09, 2005 1:37:59 AM

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Ex-neocon hawk Paul Wolfowitz now touts peace
World Bank chief tries to distance himself from Bush
Dana Milbank, Washington Post

Thursday, December 8, 2005


Washington -- On another day when the Iraq war was tearing Washington apart, a leading architect of that war, Paul Wolfowitz, was donning sheep's clothing over at the National Press Club.

The former deputy defense secretary, now president of the World Bank, gave a 30-minute speech Wednesday about the virtues of peace, the ills of poverty and the benefits of multilateralism -- without a mention of Iraq.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/12/08/MNG75G4IM51.DTL

"How do you account for the intelligence failures regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?" he was asked.

"Well," he said after a long pause, "I don't have to."




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