Wolfowitz, Paul Dundes

Name: Paul Dundes Wolfowitz

Born: December 22, 1943, in Brooklyn, NY

Profession: Political scientist

GW Bush Administration Position:

• Deputy Secretary of Defense

War crime charge(s):

• Crime against peace – planning and carrying out a war of aggression.
• With Donald Rumsfeld and others, set up Office of Special Plans in Defense Department to develop the case for invading Iraq.

Primary Association:

• Visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, working on issues of international economic development, Africa and public-private partnerships – 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
  Washington, DC 20036

Secondary Associations:

• Chairman of the US-Taiwan Business Council, 1700 North Moore St., Suite 1703, Arlington, VA 22209

More Information:

• 2-11-09 Complete Bush Appointee Resignation Scorecard
• 7-01-09 10 Most Wanted War Criminals
• 3/19/23 20 Years After Illegal US Invasion of Iraq, Its Architects Are Still Cashing In

Note:

“The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction, as the core reason.”²

¹_{Washington Post, 12/8/05; Wolfowitz, 3/27/03}

² _{“Vanity Fair” interview, May 28, 2003}

From Officials of Torture, website of Sandra Koponen.