Paul Wolfowitz: The Nightmare Of Iraq

Paul Wolfowitz is an American political scientist and diplomat who served as the State Department Director of Policy Planning under Reagan, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense under President George H.W. Bush and Deputy Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush. He is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also one of the primary co signers of the neoconservative think-tank, Project for the New American Century which called for the United States to be the "preeminent power" in the Middle East. While also authoring the "Wolfowitz Doctrine", in which the doctrine announces the US status as the world’s only remaining superpower following the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War and how to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival. Wolfowitz would also be the primary architect of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, following the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, in which over 1.5 million Iraqi's would be killed on the falsehoods the country had involvement with Al Qaeda under Osama Bin Laden and that the country possessed illegal chemical or biological weapons.