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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. T. who wrote (200205)	11/5/2001 7:05:29 PM
From: E. T.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz Interview with CNN With Robert Novak and Al Hunt Saturday, July 28, 2001 - 5:30 p.m. usinfo.state.gov Novak: I'm Robert Novak. Al Hunt and I will question the No. 2 man in the Pentagon. Hunt: He is Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz... Commercial Break... Hunt: Secretary Wolfowitz, as you know, the White House got very upset when Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle accused this administration of isolationism a week or so ago. But "The Economist" that just came out a few days ago had a headline this week -- I think we agree that's not a [inaudible] publication -- about the tendency of this administration to reject various treaties and the headline was "Stop The World, I Want To Get Off. Has George Bush Ever Met a Treaty That He Liked?" And they were specifically talking about your rejection of a germ warfare treaty. There really is a sense that you all are unilateralists, isn't there? Wolfowitz: Look, I can't be responsible for what people say and write, but what you just picked on is a good example. We are not rejecting the germ warfare treaty. The United States is a party to the biological weapons treaty. We comply with the treaty. We think it is an important treaty. What is at issue is a 210-page document which I doubt any other head of state has even bothered reading which in the name of making that treaty more enforceable would actually allow Libyan and Iraqi inspectors to start poking around American pharmaceutical companies. It's ill-conceived, and that's the problem. It's not that there's any quarrel with a treaty that will limit biological weapons, but the details are very important. And, frankly, one of the reasons some of these details are gotten wrong is frequently the United States is the only country that is willing to stand up and say what other countries are concerned about. So they pretend to be for it because they know that we'll protect them in the end. Hunt: To walk away from the protocol, why instead wouldn't it have been better to say, "All right, we don't like it, but we'll try to make it better." Isn't that... Wolfowitz: We're prepared to look at something that will make it better. I don't think you start with that 210-page document and put footnotes on it. You've got to start back, I think, with a different philosophical approach. And by the way, we signed the treaty in 1972 knowing that it couldn't be verified. The truth of the matter is verification isn't the biggest problem. We have caught countries, including the old Soviet Union, with biological weapons, and we couldn't enforce the treaty, and that's where I would have people focus even more than on how to verify it.

To: E. T. who wrote (200205)	11/5/2001 7:49:43 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

Battle Damage Assessment: Hillary Cop vs. Delta Force Seymour Hersh's New Yorker magazine report claiming that 12 Delta Force members were wounded in an Oct. 20 raid on a Taliban leader's complex was roundly debunked yesterday, both by the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Tommy Franks, as well as Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Richard Myers. Gen. Franks said the injuries were in fact mostly bumps, scratches and bruises and Gen. Myers reported, "My belief is that every soldier that came back from that particular raid is back on duty today." That's more than can be said of Westchester County Police Officer Ernest Dymond, who remains sidelined by injuries sustained a week before the Delta Force raid, when he tried to stop a van carrying New York Senator Hillary Clinton as it blew past a local airport security checkpoint. "I thought we might have a terrorist," Dymond told the Washington Times two days after the accident. Officer Dymond's ongoing disability prompted one political wag to remark to NewsMax off the record, "I guess getting in Hillary's way can be more dangerous than fighting the Taliban." newsmax.com tom watson tosiwmee