His office stated that his position is that Certain Religions aren't   "Real" religions.  What is a real religion, Mr. Wolfowitz?  What you have been practicing?  He says on the one hand that only certain Christian denominations are valid.  Read the following and remember: "By their Works may they be known."  This is a summary of information collected from several sources about Paul Wolfowitz.

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Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (b. December 22, 1943) is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, former academic, diplomat, military strategist, policymaker, and a dick. Wolfowitz served in the Defense and State Departments under Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush. In 2007, he resigned from the World Bank after an investigation over a promotion he secured for his girlfriend, and the fact that the affair forced people to conclude that someone was, indeed, willingly having sexual intercourse with Wolfowitz.

Personal history

Wolfowitz was born to a Polish-Jewish immigrant family in New York. In 1957, Wolfowitz, then fourteen years old, spent a year living in Israel, as if Israel didn't have enough problems. Even as a child, Wolfowitz was a strong supporter of Israel, and, like many neocons, would channel that passion into a lifelong devotion to screwing up the Middle East.

As something of a dick prodigy, Wolfowitz began attending Cornell while still a high school student. Later, while still an undergraduate, he met Claire Selgin. They married in 1968, after which he convinced her to have sexual intercourse with him at least three times, producing the couple's three children.

The two separated in 1999. It is unknown why it took Claire Wolfowitz until 1999 to divorce, though one possible explanation is that, as a prominent anthropologist, she traveled frequently and was thus better able to tolerate being in a marriage with a dick like Wolfowitz.

In addition to English, Wolfowitz is able to be a dick in five other languages, Arabic, French, German, Hebrew, and Indonesian.

Post-graduate education

After graduating from Cornell, Wolfowitz attended the University of Chicago, because he wished to study with Leo Strauss, the intellectual godfather to an entire generation of neocon dicks.

In 1970, Wolfowitz went to Yale, where he earned a Ph.D. in political science. His doctoral dissertation was on "water desalinization in the Middle East." Though his dissertation did not solve the water supply crisis there, the issue, largely due to Wolfowitz's later efforts, is no longer considered among the region's top problems.

One of Wolfowitz's students at Yale was I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the dick who later became an aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and was convicted in the Valerie Plame affair.

Professional life

After working in the Carter and Reagan administrations, Wolfowitz became George H.W. Bush's U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and was responsible for realigning U.S. military strategy in the post-cold war environment, which has been a stunning success.

This is known as a joke.

Following the Persian Gulf War in 1991, Wolfowitz co-wrote the Defense Planning Guidance to "set the nation’s direction for the next century." The Bush administration had decided not to move into Baghdad and overthrow Saddam Hussein, favoring instead a policy of containment. Wolfowitz’s plan called for "preemption" and "unilateralism." It is unfortunate that we will just never know how that would have turned out.

After the election of President Bill Clinton in 1992, Wolfowitz left government service and became a private sector dick, until the Republicans regained power in 2000 and reassembled the network of fringe neocon dicks, much like the old gang from Ocean's 11, except with more death, chaos, car bombs, and suffering.

In 1997, Wolfowitz was associated with the Project for a New American Century, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank founded by second generation dicks William Kristol and Robert Kagan. PNAC's goal was to channel the feelings of sexual inadequacy felt by neocons into a foreign policy program. In regards to that goal it is generally thought to have been a great success.

From 2001 to 2005, Wolfowitz served at President George W. Bush's Deputy Secretary of Defense. In May 2001, Wolfowitz ordered the recall of 600,000 military berets made in China, stating "U.S. troops shall not wear berets made in China." Up untl then, few knew about Wolfowitz's muscular fashion policy. There has been some speculation that Wolfowitz was also behind the sudden switch to skinny jeans in 2006.

Iraq war

Of the attacks of 9-11, Wolfowitz said: "9/11 really was a wake up call and that if we take proper advantage of this opportunity to prevent the future terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction that it will have been an extremely valuable wake up call." Though many criticisms have been made against Wolfowitz over the course of his career, failing to "take proper advantage" of the deaths of other people's children has never been among them. It is only too bad that the 2,974 victims of 9/11 couldn't have gone through their "extremely valuable deaths" deaths earlier.

Post-Iraq

Having f***ed up the military and political aspects of the Middle East, only the financial sector was to enjoy Wolfowitz's vision and acumen. Accordingly, in 2005 Bush put forth Wolfowitz to be the President of the World Bank. The nomination split opinion. On one side was every sane person in the world, on the other, the Wall Street Journal editorial page.

While at the bank, Wolfowitz's relationship with a bank staffer, Shaha Ali Riza, became public. This was a problem for two reasons. The first: bank rules prohibit sexual relationships between a staff member and a manager, even if the former reports to the latter only indirectly. The second reason: someone is having sexual intercourse with Paul Wolfowitz. Presumably, she would regularly and willingly see Wolfowitz naked. Most likely, she even let him touch her. Sexually. Worst of all, though Riza was in her early 50's when she began dating Wolfowitz, recent scientific advances have made it possible that Riza could even have brought yet another Wolfowitz into the world. This would seem to be in direct conflict with the World Bank's mission of helping to improve conditions in the world.

After an ensuing ethics investigation, Wolfowitz announced his resignation from the bank on May 17, 2007.

A week later The New York Post reported that Wolfowitz and Riza had split up, leaving Wolfowitz to satisfy himself sexually, perhaps with images of his handiwork in the Middle East.

Undermining Blix

Wolfowitz Had CIA Investigate Blix

By JASON LEOPOLD

Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, was so eager to see the United States launch a preemptive strike against Iraq in early 2002, that he ordered the CIA to investigate the past work of Hans Blix, the chief United Nations weapons inspector, who in February 2002, was asked to lead a team of U.N. weapons inspectors into Iraq to search for weapons of mass destruction, in an attempt to undermine the scientist.

The unusual move by Wolfowitz underscores the steps the Bush administration was willing to take a year before the U.S. invaded Iraq to manipulate and or exaggerate intelligence information to support it's claims that Iraq posed an immediate threat to the United States and that the only solution to quell the problem was the use of military force.

U.S. military forces in Iraq have yet to find any evidence of WMD. Some U.S. lawmakers have accused the Bush administration of distorting intelligence information, which claimed Iraq possessed tons of chemical and biological agents, to justify the attack to overthrow Iraq's President Saddam Hussein. Although the Bush administration continues to deny the accusations, evidence, such as the secret report Wolfowitz asked the CIA in January 2002 to produce on Blix, prove that the administration had already decided that removing Saddam from power would require military force and it would do so regardless of the U.N..

Earlier this month, Blix accused the Bush administration of launching a smear campaign against him because he could not find evidence of WMD in Iraq and, he said, he refused to pump up his reports to the U.N. about Iraq's WMD programs, which would have given the U.S. the evidence it needed to get a majority of U.N. member countries to support a war against Iraq. Instead, Blix said the U.N. inspectors should be allowed more time to conduct searches in Iraq for WMD.

In a June 11 interview with the London Guardian newspaper, Blix said "U.S. officials pressured him to use more damning language when reporting on Iraq's alleged weapons programs."

"By and large my relations with the U.S. were good,'' Blix told the Guardian. "But toward the end the (Bush) administration leaned on us.'"

Tensions between Blix and the hawks in the Bush administration, such as Wolfowitz, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney, go back at least two years, when President Bush, at the urging of Secretary of State Colin Powell, said he wanted the U.N. to resurrect U.N. arms inspections for Iraq.

The move angered some in the administration, such as Wolfowitz, who, according to an April 15 report in the Washington Post, wanted to see military action against Iraq sooner rather than later.

When the U.N. said privately in January 2002 that Blix would lead an inspections team into Iraq, Wolfowitz contacted the CIA to produce a report on why Blix, as chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency during the 1980s and 1990s, failed to detect Iraqi nuclear activity.

But, according to the Washington Post's April 15, 2002 story, the CIA report said Blix "had conducted inspections of Iraq's declared nuclear power plants fully within the parameters he could operate as chief of the Vienna-based agency between 1981 and 1997."

Wolfowitz, according to the Post, quoting a former State Department official familiar with the report, "hit the ceiling" because it failed to provide sufficient ammunition to undermine Blix and, by association, the new U.N. weapons inspection program."

"The request for a CIA investigation underscored the degree of concern by Wolfowitz and his civilian colleagues in the Pentagon that new inspections -- or protracted negotiations over them -- could torpedo their plans for military action to remove Hussein from power," the Post reported.

Soon after the CIA issued its report, the administration began exaggerating intelligence information of Iraq's weapons programs and, in some cases, forcing intelligence officials to "cook" up information to support a war, according to a Nov. 19, 2002 story in the London Guardian newspaper.

For example, last August, Cheney said Iraq would have nuclear weapons "fairly soon" - in direct contradiction of CIA reports that said it would take at least five more years.

Rumsfeld, in public comments last year, accused Saddam Hussein of providing sanctuary to al-Qaida operatives fleeing Afghanistan - although they had actually traveled to Iraqi Kurdistan, which is outside Saddam's control, the Guardian reported.

On Feb. 12, 2002, a week or so after the CIA issued its report to Wolfowitz on Blix, reporters questioned Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld about the accuracy of the Bush administration's claim that Iraq was harboring al-Qaida terrorists and the countries alleged stockpile of WMD, which some news reports said was not true.

Rumsfeld's response to the reporters' questions about the accuracy of the information proves that the Defense Secretary cares little about providing the public with thoughtful, intelligent analysis.

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know," Rumsfeld said.

But on Wednesday, Rumsfeld and Gen Richard Myers, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, radically changed their stance on the accuracy of such intelligence The officials said at a news conference that intelligence information the U.S. gathered leading up to the war in Iraq that concluded the country possessed WMD may have been wrong.

"Intelligence doesn't necessarily mean something is true," Myers said "It's just -- it's intelligence. You know, it's your best estimate of the situation. It doesn't mean it's a fact. I mean, that's not what intelligence is. It's not -- they're -- and so you make judgments."

Jason Leopold can be reached at: jasonleopold@hotmail.com

The Wolf in a Judge's Robes

Wolfowitz: Our Lord High Executioner

By ELAINE CASSEL

As I was reading an article about the Alien and Sedition Act (the law that the Federalists pushed through the Congress on June 25, 1798 in order to quell rebellion against its growing power), and thinking about how its essence resembled the intent and effect of the USA Patriot Act, this news flash came across my email:

"Defense deputy gets authority for military tribunals."

I did not have to open the email to learn who it was. It could only be (and it is)--the one, the only, the unhonorable, the dissembling, and the anti-constitution autocrat, Paul Wolfowitz. He will run the military tribunals in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or wherever else outside the US Rumsfeld chooses to try these poor souls.

Seems that Rumsfeld has his hands busy with this "untidy" war (I thought it was over and that we had won?) in Iraq that just won't quit. With those ungrateful Iraqis not happy with American occupation, and the concomitant lack of energy, money, and food. I digress.

According to CNN News, Wolfowitz will exercise key powers in the commission process. After the chief military prosecutor drafts charges against a prisoner (CNN, of course, referred to this hapless person as a "detainee"--talk about dissembling), Wolfowitz will "approve" the charges and send the detainee to trial. So he has already served as chief prosecutor, grand jury, and presiding judge.

As appointing authority, he also will select military officers to sit on commissions. If commission members cannot resolve matters related to procedures, motions or facts, Wolfowitz will make the final decision. There you go, a judge again. The article did not say that Wolfowitz would carry out the executions (and there will be plenty of them, you can be sure, in secret, as will be the trials), but you can bet he will. Or wants to. Or maybe he does not want to get blood on his white shirt or stain his gold cufflinks. But by now, he has risen to the status of Lord High Executioner in this most bizarre of legal systems.

Whatever, there you have it, justice American style. A criminal court created by Bush, run by the Pentagon, and with "laws" drafted in consort with Ashcroft, Chertoff, and minions at the Department of Justice. The trials will be in secret. The chief defense attorney is a reluctant officer who had been praying for the prosecutor's position (won't he give some zealous defense?). American defense attorneys, if any prisoner can afford one, will have to swear a vow of allegiance to Rumsfeld, of course, agree to a lifetime gag order, and stand by while certain proceedings against his client are held in secret, out of his presence. (What lawyer worth his license would agree to this? None that I would want, that's for certain.)

Foreign news sources have reported that execution chambers are under construction. Bush and Rumsfeld are said to be deciding who the lucky ones are to be tried in this mockery of "justice."

And you should be wondering, as Independence Day nears, how we have come to this under our Emperor George Bush II.

So on the anniversary of the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts, we witness a sequel of a government so afraid of its "enemies" (or so they say--we will never hear the evidence) that it has to create a caricature of a "legal" system and try them in secret.

Why don't they just drop the charade, line up the prisoners, and shoot them? Bring on Lord Wolfowitz with his rifle--or maybe he would prefer a sword?

Elaine Cassel practices law in Virginia and the District of Columbia and teaches law and psychology. She is writing a book on civil liberties post 9/11, and keeps and keeps an eye on Bush and Ashcroft's trampling on the Bill of Rights at her Civil Liberties Watch.

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