You must be joking.SPIEGEL: Mr. Wolfowitz, as deputy secretary of defense under President George W. Bush, you supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Today, many people regard this war as a key factor behind the instability in the Middle East as well as the rise of the Islamic State (IS). Do you feel personally responsible?
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Sure. It was all Barack Obama's fault. Everything was great until he took over.Wolfowitz: No, because Islamic State is mainly a direct result of the failure in Syria.
But really, could Obama not see this coming when he continued the Bush policies, pretended to end the war in Iraq, and expanded the war to Syria and other countries? If he couldn't, he's not as smart as he'd like us to think.
Right. Iraq was stable in 2008. George Bush handed Obama a stable Middle East and Obama blew it. Or as Donald Trump recently said, Obama founded ISIS.Wolfowitz: As far as Iraq is concerned, if it had stayed stable the way it was in 2008, IS would not have been able to expand in Iraq the way they did. The mistake was that Barack Obama withdrew the armed forces from Iraq too fast.
Jesus Christ. Peaceful political change?!? Paul Wolfowitz is apparently living in an alternate universe. Or perhaps, from an alternate universe.Wolfowitz: Peaceful political change has been enormously successful in the past years in Eastern European countries as well as in countries like South Korea, South Africa, Chile and Indonesia.
When are we going to hear from Cheney on his vote for Hillary?
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