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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: sylvester80 who wrote (410474)	5/30/2003 4:36:43 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) of 769670

Did Wolfie misspeak... or did he really mean to say we went to war so we would have a new place to move our troops to? ---------------------------------- IN AN INTERVIEW in the next issue of Vanity Fair magazine, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is quoted as saying a “huge” reason for the war was to enable Washington to withdraw its troops from Saudi Arabia. “For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on,” Wolfowitz was quoted as saying. “Almost unnoticed but huge” was the need to maintain U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia as long as Saddam was in power, he was quoted as saying. In Singapore, where he was meeting with Asian leaders, Wolfowitz referred reporters Friday to a transcript of the interview posted on the Pentagon Web site. Some of the quotations in the Vanity Fair article differ, sometimes significantly, from the versions offered by the Pentagon, which suggest that Wolfowitz meant to say withdrawal of U.S. troops from Saudi Arabia was an important outcome of the war, not an important reason for it.

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