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Memo on the Margin
February 20, 2002
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WOLFOWITZ AND THE AXIS OF EVIL
Memo To: Chairman Henry Hyde, House International Relations
From: Jude Wanniski
Re: Wolfowitz is Evil, 2nd Class
If you saw Tom Friedman�s column in The New York Times last week, he
noted that Europeans are identifying the three members of the �Axis
of Evil� as Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld, and National Security Advisor Condi Rice. I actually don�t
classify any of them as �evil,� which is a term that generally
applies to �darkness,� as opposed to �light.� The Prince of Darkness
� Satan or Mephistopheles � lures his victims, who are basically
good, into committing acts of evil by persuading them it is okay to
do so. All of us at one time or another succumb to such evil
influences. When Ronald Reagan identified the Soviet empire as the
�Evil Empire,� it was a perfect use of the term, in that the Soviet
leaders had rationalized their behavior as being in the long-term
interests of the Russian people. Until the very end, they really
thought they were good guys.
I�m afraid, Mr. Chairman, that despite my best efforts, you have fallen into the
clutches of evil influences, as I saw you on CNN�s LateEdition announce that we have
no choice but to use the �war on terrorism� as an excus
e to go to war with Iraq. You did not go all the way and say there is nothing Saddam
Hussein can do to prevent such a war. You seemed to say that if he allows weapons
inspectors back in to check out his weapons of mass de
struction, that would be okay. If not for that loophole, I would not bother writing
you. I would figure your soul had been grabbed by the likes of Paul Wolfowitz, our
deputy Defense Secretary, who is truly evil, albeit a
second class Beelzebub. Wolfowitz does what he is told by Richard Perle, who is the
genuine article, the Prince of Darkness, which has actually been his nickname for the
more than 30 years he has been in Washington. In sp
ending most of his waking hours plotting on how to arrange a nice little war with
Iraq, with or without coalition partners, Perle is the primary manipulator, Old
Scratch himself. He has a good part of Washington under his
spell, with a whole cadre of journalists and commentators now insisting that the
United States of America can do whatever it likes in the world, regardless of any
arguments pro or con. This is because we alone possess ul
timate responsibility for the world and the power to back up our wishes.
Don�t get me wrong, this might be a satisfactory argument if our policies toward the
rest of the world were based on truth and justice, but the evil ones care little for
justice and even less for truth. Richard Perle has
been a master of propaganda from his earliest days in Washington, when I knew him as
an aide to the late Sen. Henry (Scoop) Jackson. In those days we were fellow Cold
Warriors, fighting the �Evil Empire.� But I parted com
pany with him long ago, when Perle decided he enjoyed war and had no place in a world
at peace. Wolfowitz, who he took on as a henchman years ago, remains his principal
agent in clouding the eyes of the President and Vice
President, the Secretary of Defense and National Security Advisor.
It just so happens that Wolfowitz was on an earlier Sunday talk show, Henry,
FoxNewsSunday, with Brit Hume the host. You should read the transcript. For the first
time on national television, as far as I know, a senior Bu
sh administration official was asked what Saddam Hussein had to do �to get out of the
doghouse.� Brit Hume posed that question and you will see that Wolfowitz would not
answer it, except to say that Saddam had to �prove i
t,� after a long, circular commentary on Saddam�s threatening nature. Brit let him off
the hook, but came back later in the show to ask what it was that Saddam had to prove
in order to get out of the doghouse. Wolfowitz a
gain went in circles, saying he would not speculate on that question, but that we
would know when it happens!! The real answer from Perle and Wolfowitz, is that there
is nothing Saddam can do. You believe that if Baghdad
allows the weapons inspectors to return and look around, Saddam might be able to stick
around. But Perle has already covered that base, by saying the inspectors have been
gone for so long, three years, that it would now b
e impossible for the inspectors to find hidden caches of Saddam�s weapons. You must
remember that Wolfowitz, junior grade Lucifer, is not telling the truth. For if the
truth be known, it would undermine all their plans fo
r war. In your interview, I noticed you saying the nuclear inspectors should be
allowed back in, for example.
I thought I pointed out when we met last fall that the International Atomic Energy
Agency sends its inspectors into Iraq on a regular basis, and they certify again and
again that there are no signs of nukes or nuclear wea
pons development. Maybe I didn�t. The IAEA inspectors just made their rounds in
January and signed off on a nuke-free Iraq. Perle and Wolfowitz have been trotting
around an Iraqi scientist who defected from the regime, wh
o says Saddam is still trying to make fissile material for a nuke. He doesn�t say,
though, how he could conceal such a development program from spy satellites, as Iraq
would require massive infusions of electricity to run
the cyclotrons.
If I were you, Henry, I really would attempt to put some distance
between myself and the administration�s posture on Iraq. Congress,
after all, is an independent branch of government, which is supposed
to provide checks and balances. There no longer seems to be balance
in the executive branch on the Iraq issue, unless there is a grand
strategy not visible on the surface to anyone. I�m not saying you
should oppose the Bush policy, only that you focus on the question
that got away from Brit Hume without an answer: What does Saddam
Hussein have to do to get out of the doghouse? If there is some
diplomatic way for that to happen, it can be done without war.
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