Holding Their Ground

[Tinoire]

Holding Their Ground
As Critics Zero In, Paul Wolfowitz Is Unflinching On Iraq Policy
By Thomas E. Ricks


Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 23, 2003; Page C01


In late September, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul D. Wolfowitz appeared in Manhattan at an event sponsored by the New Yorker magazine. As he began to speak, he was interrupted by shouts of "War criminal!" and "Murderer!"

"I can't resist," he said evenly, surveying the audience. "This is what is wonderful about this country. It is -- "

Another shout: "Shame on you."

Wolfowitz drove on: " -- and what is finally wonderful is 50 million, roughly 50 million Afghans and Iraqis, are finally able to speak this way without having their tongues cut out."

A few minutes later, a young man ran to the base of the stage, jabbed a finger at Wolfowitz and shouted: "You should be tried for treason, you Nazi!"

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If Wolfowitz was jarred by the attack, he showed no sign of it. Rather, he looked a bit distant as he coolly responded: "Frankly, my own reading of history is that exactly this kind of tactic is what the Nazis did and what the totalitarians did in trying to stop people from listening and talking."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22921-2003Dec22.html

((Urgh! And to think this man was a professor!))

[Sugarbleus]

1. Great post Tin..

Poor Wolfowitz has the (who is) nazi/totalitarian thing backwards.

[grok]

2. isn't wolfie jewish?

hmm. a jewish natzi.

Grok

[Tinoire]

3. Wolfie is simply an evil man

His religion has nothing to do with it. His warped interpretation maybe but you can't blame Judaism for him any more than you can blame Christianity for Hitler...

Peace