Paul Wolfowitz
Paul Wolfowitz
Paul Dundes Wolfowitzis a former President of the World Bank, United States Ambassador to Indonesia, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, and former dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, working on issues of international economic development, Africa and public-private partnerships, and chairman of the US-Taiwan Business Council...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth22 December 1943
CountryUnited States of America
At this point, if I were an Iraqi opposition figure, I wouldn't lay my life on the line based on the president's word.
We know that to arrive at these goals, there is no greater engine than the industrious and well-educated people of Iraq themselves, ... Along with our coalition partners, we would help Iraqis begin the process of economic and political reconstruction. We would assist the people of Iraq in putting their country on a path towards prosperity and freedom.
We are going to make sure the Iraqi people believe us at the end of the day,
As impressive as that election was, Iraq still faces a difficult road ahead,
The more Iraqis feel that they are in charge of their own country, the more rapidly we'll get away from this idea that we're there as an occupation force. We came as liberators. That's our mission.
Our goal in Iraq is a democratic Iraq that truly respects the wishes of the people of Iraq, ... We can set up some parameters for a process, but we cannot write a blueprint.
In recent days, the Syrians have been shipping killers into Iraq to try to kill Americans -- we don't welcome that,
The indications are that the administration has no intention of giving a single rifle or a single anti-tank missile to a single Iraqi opposition group or person. Until they state to do that, they clearly aren't serious.
The Iraqi people are going to have a chance to show the whole world what Arabs are capable of.
I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.
There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq. Some of the higher end predictions we have been hearing recently, such as the notion that it will take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to provide stability in post- Iraq, are wildly off the mark. It is hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army — hard to imagine.
It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army. Hard to imagine.
I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.