Plessner Chronicle Blog

(First installment exposing the neo-conservative conspiracy to subvert American foreign and defense policy)April 20, 2007 – It’s beginning to feel like a recurring nightmare — a bad dream that keeps coming back over and over again. The three neo-conservative horsemen of the Apocalypse — Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and John Bolton — are back on television telling us how to rule the world. And what’s even more disturbing is that our president and vice president depend on these people for advice!

PAUL WOLFOWITZ

Paul Wolfowitz was the Assistant Secretary of Defense under Donald Rumsfeld. Wolfowitz is the one who refined the rationale for the war on Iraq. A key member of the Project for the New American Century, Wolfowitz is perhaps the most important neo-conservative after Dick Cheney.Among other deceptions in the run up to the war, Wolfowitz refused to answer Senators’ questions about Bush administration plans for the invasion of Iraq. He then refused to tell the Senate what the war would cost before it was stampeded into voting to support the war. Wolfowitz is a leading neo-conservative intellectual. He has been involved at every point in their subversion of American foreign and defense policy that has brought the United States to its current status of distrust and disrespect in the world.

As Assistant Secretary of Defense under the hapless Rumsfeld, one of Wolfowitz’s key roles seems to have been to keep generals and experts in post-war planning out of the preparation for the war. Read the rest of this entry »