Topic: POLITIK - on March 16, 2003 at 11:49:09 PM CET
Fire Paul Wolfowitz
Memo To: Don Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense From: Jude Wanniski Re: The Monkeys on your Back
In case you have not noticed, Don, your deputy at the Pentagon, Paul Wolfowitz, has promoted himself and is now the Defense Secretary, and you are his deputy. We still see you quoted here and there, but Paul has already wrested policymaking from your hands and is making it himself. It is almost as if you have become his press secretary. He was bored with Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden long before the strikes began Sunday, as he is maniacally determined to cut to the chase, “finishing the war against Saddam Hussein,” as his many followers in the pundit community put it.
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