"For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on." Everyone meaning, presumably, Powell and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "Almost unnoticed but huge," he said, is another reason: removing Saddam will allow the U.S. to take its troops out of Saudi Arabia, where their presence has been one of al-Qaeda's biggest grievances. "Just lifting that burden from the Saudis is itself going to open the door" to a more peaceful Middle East, Wolfowitz said.
-- Paul Wolfowitz http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-7037799_ITM Sam Tanenhaus, "Bush's Brain Trust," Vanity Fair, July 2003
Don’t know about Wolfy, but Paul blamed America for 9-11! He’s a loser and an idiot.
All I did was to say that it was Wallace, not Hume who asked the Al-Quaeda question, so why have you pinged me to this Wolfowitz question?