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Paul Wolfowitz
Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is an American political scientist and diplomat who served as the 10th President of the World Bank, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, and former dean of Johns Hopkins SAIS. He is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.He proposed a plan to invade Iraq in 2001. He was an early advocate of the Iraq War and has widely been described as an architect of the war.
Documents of security meetings between President Bush & congressmen just after Twin Tower attack of 2001 shows, he was connecting Iraq with Al Qaeda & wanted to invade Iraq instead of Afghanistan. Later on that evening, he met with President Bush & told him about his plan to invade Iraq by cutting Saddam only to Baghdad, occupying the rest of Iraq having most of Oil wells. After that meeting, he & Bush started to make propaganda against Iraq on international platform such as Saddam Hussain harbouring terrorist, Iraq having weapons of Mass destruction. He testified before the House Appropriations Committee in March 2003: "There is a lot of money to pay for this that doesn't have to be US taxpayer money, and it starts with the assets of the Iraqi people. We are talking about a country that can really finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon." In the aftermath of the insurgency and civil war that followed the invasion, Wolfowitz denied influencing policy on Iraq and disclaimed responsibility. He is a leading neoconservative.In 2005, he left the Pentagon to serve as president of the World Bank only to resign after two years over a scandal involving allegations he used his position to help World Bank staffer Shaha Riza to whom he was romantically linked. A Reuters report described it as "a protracted battle over his stewardship, prompted by his involvement in a high-paying promotion for his companion". Wolfowitz is the only World Bank president to have resigned over a scandal.
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