Wolfowitz Target of Democrats Ire on Iraq

WASHINGTON -- As details of prison abuses in Iraq surfaced, many Democrats on Capitol Hill demanded that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld resign. But not Sen. Carl Levin. The top Senate Democrat on a key military committee said he is wary about who might be the post-Rumsfeld secretary.

"If it would be his deputy, I don't see that that would represent a change at all in terms of the direction we should go," Levin told reporters this month.

Rumsfeld's deputy is Paul Wolfowitz. If Democrats are dissatisfied with Rumsfeld, that doesn't compare to the disdain some feel for the man seen as the intellectual architect of the Iraq war.

Some of their anger spilled out at last week's Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., told Wolfowitz his credibility had been undermined because he had "made numerous predictions, time and time again, that have turned out to be untrue and were based on faulty assumptions."

Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., accused Wolfowitz of "dissembling and avoidance of answers."

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The Boy Who Cried Wolfowitz?

"be careful what you ask for because you just might get it."

in line WILL be wolfowitz. Who, if anything, is even WORSE than rummy. He's one of THE most rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth PNAC-whore neocons alive. They don't get much worse than him, unless of course it's richard perle. And he IS deputy defense secretary. He IS next in line. And figuring on the mentality in the White House, bush would have no trouble elevating him whatsoever. Probably would welcome the opportunity. cheney certainly would.

Besides, remember this... the PERCEPTION out there (which would be widely and roundly encouraged by the media hacks and rightwingers and limbaughs etc) would be that - oh, lookie! rummy's gone. Problem SOLVED! All over. All fixed. Everybody go home now. Time to move on... nothing to see here...

Levin's correct. He makes an EXTREMELY wise and valuable point. Better the devil you know. As long as rummy remains like a millstone around these schmucks' necks, the better. The more weight to drag them ALL down - AND OUT in November. We really should leave rummy EXACTLY where he is.

I agree with Levin especially since impeachment fails to "punish" (as in jail time). These guys should be prosecuted immediately after the Bush regime is removed from office.

Rumsfeld is a paper tiger without Wolfowitz, and Rumsfeld is already going to be out.

will salvage any credibility from this and that may not be enough.