[lbo-talk] Kristol: What Wolfowitz Really Said

[Michael Pollak]

Kristol seems to be right here on the specific point, but he's missing the
larger point: if there were no WMDs, the entire rationale of pre-emptive
war was fraudulent.  Wolfowitz, under Tannenbaum's reconstruction, was at
least offering an alternative justification, and one that most people
would agree was a good thing.  Take that away, as Billy Kristol is doing,
and the war has no justification at all.  That's not exactly an
ideological improvement.

BTW, the entire transcript of the Wolfowitz interview is available online
at the Dod site at

http://dod.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20030509-depsecdef0223.html

Michael