Endorsing 68-year-old Democratic nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, former President George W. Bush’s Deputy Defense Secretary Paul “Wolfy” Wolfowitz tells the real story about Hillary: She’s a military hawk. Getting Wolfowitz’s endorsement confirms what’s been known for some time that there’s no degree of separation between Hillary and the so-called Neocons that backed invading Iraq, turning the Middle East into terrorist cauldron. Telling German magazine Der Spiegel he’ll vote for Hillary, Wolfowitz also confirms that 70-year-old GOP nominee real estate mogul Donald Trump is not a Neocon, someone strongly opposed by the war industry. As pointed out by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) during the 2016 primaries, Hillary was a strong backer of the Oct. 11, 2002 Iraq War Resolution, giving Bush the green light to go to war.
For obvious reasons, Trump condemned the Iraq War as the worst decision ever made by a U.S. president. Trump told a booing crowd at the CBS News GOP debate Feb. 15, with former Bush-43 and his family in the audience, that the former president lied to the American public about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, the alleged basis for going to war March 20, 2003. Trump rolled the dice, receiving overwhelming boos, winning the South Carolina primary Feb. 20 by a large margin, knocking 62-year-old Jeb Bush out of the presidential race. Wolfowitz, who left the Pentagon June 1, 2005 to become the head of the World Bank, resigned in disgrace July 1, 2007, after he was accused of giving his British national Turkish-Syrian mistress Shaha Riza preferential treatment at the World Bank. Getting Wolfowitz’s endorsement can’t be welcomed by Hillary.
Wolfowitz views Trump as a threat to U.S. national security because of his desire to improve favorable relations with 63-year-Russian President Vladimir Putin. No one hurt U.S. national security in his tenure at the Pentagon more than Wolfowitz and his boss former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Both wholeheartedly backed toppling Saddam Hussein, creating the dreaded power vacuum that kept “W’s” father, former President George H.W. Bush, from toppling Iraqi President Saddam Hussein at the end of the first Gulf War Jan. 17, 1991. All of Bush-41’s advisors, including Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft opposed toppling the Iraqi dictator. Backing Hillary for president, Wolfowitz told Der Spiegel that he can’t back Trump. “It’s important to make it clear how unacceptable he is,” signaling he’ll vote for Hillary.
Wolfowitz’s endorsement confirms the worst nightmare, whether admitted to or not, that Hillary’s a war hawk, very much in the vein of Sen. John McCain (R-Az.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. McCain urged Obama to start bombing Syria Sept. 10, 2013. Two years later, Hillary urged Obama Oct. 1, 2015 to set up a no-fly-zone in Syria against the advice to the Pentagon’s top generals. For better or worse, Obama ignored McCain and Hillary, leading the current mess in Syria. When asked whether he was the primary architect of the Iraq War by Der Spiegel, Wolfowitz rejected the description. Wolfowitz claimed he wanted to free Iraq, not occupy it, acting clueless about the March 20, 2003 war that toppled Saddam Hussein April 10, 2003 after destroying the Iraqi military. Wolfowitz claims the Bush administration and Pentagon were fed bad intel on Iraq.
Wolfowitz said nothing about his intimate tie to the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans, headed by fellow Neocons Douglas Feith Jr. and Pentagon Defense Advisory Council President Richard Perle. Feith and Perle supplied Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz all the phony intel about Saddam’s alleged stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. “Of course we would have proceeded differently if we had known that Saddam Hussein was not stockpiling weapons of mass destruction, but was only planning to do so,” Wolfowitz told Der Spiegel. “We would have not invaded,” said Wolfy. Like Rumsfeld, Wolfy’s an expert at making feeble excuses. Magazines like Der Spiegel lack the facts to press Wolfy more directly about false statements. Der Spiegel asked Wolfy nothing about why German intelligence rejected claims that the OSP’s intel came from former Iraqi exile CIA contractor Ahmed Chalibi.
Backing Hillary, Wolfowitz sends a loud signal to anyone concerned about future U.S. foreign wars: That Hillary’s the most likely one to get the U.S. into the next conflict. Creating the Pentagon’s OSP to supply Rumsfeld the phony intel about Saddam’s WMD, Wolfowitz offered no apology to turning the Middle East into today’s terrorist inferno. Neither Rumsfeld nor Wolfowitz have told the truth about their direct role in the Iraq War. With Hillary knowing all the facts and backing the Iraq War, she still backed toppling Libya strongman Col. Muammar Gaddafi March 24, 2011. Creating a terrorist haven in Libya like she did in Iraq, Hillary 100% backs toppling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Neither Hillary nor Obama can explain why they back toppling al-Assad, pitting the U.S. against Russia and Iran. With Wolfowitz’s backing, it’s clear Hillary’s a Neocon.
