-Caveat Lector- Bush picks Wolfowitz for No. 2 Pentagon job http://www.baltimoresun.com/content/news/story?section=news&pagename=story&s toryid=1150540217646 Hopkins dean opposed limited strikes on Iraq in Desert Fox campaign By Tom Bowman Sun National Staff Originally published Feb 6 2001 WASHINGTON - Three years ago, as President Clinton prepared to dispatch U.S. aircraft against Iraq in what became the "Desert Fox" bombing campaign, Paul Wolfowitz thought such a limited strike was unwise. "Absent a strategy, absent any follow-up, [airstrikes] strengthen Saddam Hussein in the region and his own country," said Wolfowitz, who served as a top Pentagon official during the Persian Gulf war before becoming dean of the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. Wolfowitz was among those who favored creating a haven in southern Iraq where opposition groups and renegade Iraqi soldiers could regroup, possibly under the protection of the U.S. military. Now he will have a chance to mold such policies from the Pentagon. President Bush said yesterday that he would nominate the quiet and cerebral Wolfowitz to the No. 2 post at the Pentagon, where he would serve as deputy to new Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. The position requires Senate confirmation. Wolfowitz, 57, of Chevy Chase, was one of candidate Bush's top foreign policy and defense advisers and was a frontrunner for the top Defense job. But some Bush advisers said Wolfowitz lacked the managerial skills to run the sprawling Pentagon, which has overwhelmed many seasoned bureaucrats with its battling fiefdoms and complex weapons programs. A New York native who studied mathematics and chemistry at Cornell University before earning a master's degree and doctorate in political science at the University of Chicago, Wolfowitz worked for President Reagan as head of policy planning at the State Department before becoming assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. In 1986, Reagan appointed Wolfowitz as U.S. ambassador to Indonesia, a post he held until 1989. In the previous Bush administration, Wolfowitz served as undersecretary of defense for policy planning. Wolfowitz played an important role when the U.S.-led coalition went to war in the Persian Gulf region in 1991 to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait. As Iraqi Scud missiles struck Israel, Bush sent him to help persuade Israel not to retaliate, which could have upset the coalition's Arab partners. It was a delicate mission, but ultimately proved successful. Since becoming dean at SAIS in 1994, Wolfowitz has weighed in frequently on national security issues. He urged greater support for Iraqi opposition groups in their quest to oust Hussein. And he echoed the concerns of others that North Korea, Iran and other so-called rogue states were building missiles that could strike the United States. Three years ago, when Rumsfeld headed a commission that spotlighted such dangers, he found an ally in Wolfowitz. The CIA was "wrong" in minimizing the threat, Wolfowitz told The Sun. The spy agency, he argued, underestimated the role played by foreign trade and technology transfers in helping potential aggressors develop ballistic missiles capable of reaching American soil. "People who want these things can get these things," he said. "He's definitely a policy guy. He's able to see the big picture," said a former U.S. official who has worked with Wolfowitz on Iraqi opposition matters. But in Baltimore there are mixed feelings. 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