Peter Galbraith was on The Brian Lehrer Show today on WNYC.
Here is the most telling exchange:
Peter Galbraith: They [the Bush administration] knew about this looting. In fact, when I came back from Iraq, I went and saw Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense. I described in great detail all the things that had gone wrong. I described the looting of the biological location I described the looting of the Tawaitha nuclear facility and then after that on the twelfth of June I testified publicly before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the same thing and even after that nothing happened. Of course I wasn't the only person to warn. There were newspaper stories. They must have had reports from their commanders in the field. It didn't change their behavior. These materials continued to be looted even after they received the warnings. That's the bigger picture. That's what makes me so upset about what's gone on in Iraq.[...]
Brian Lehrer: You know Paul Wolfowitz, you helped sell the war for Paul Wolfowitz. What does he say? Do you talk to him? Does he acknowledge that the war was mishandled?
Peter Galbraith: No, and in fact when I delivered my report he got angrier and angrier and it became clear that he was not angry at what I was saying, but at me personally and that was the last time I spoke to him.
You can hear the program with Real Audio here.
What a truly contemptible bastard Wolfowitz is. How anyone can make the argument that we are safer with the likes of him in government is beyond me. Send him back to academia and his boss back to Crawford on Tuesday.
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