Wolfowitz won't talk

The satire site, Spoof News picks up on a story that caught my eye as well. They open their "news" report with this.

Former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz marked Day 6 of "Truth Behind the Gates" by joining the ranks of Bush administration officials who are unable to get their hands on a copy of the Downing Street Memo.

Astounding but true. St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports

(KRT) - WASHINGTON - World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Iraq war during his service as Deputy Defense Secretary, said Tuesday that he hasn't read any of the recently disclosed British government memos that call into question his role and that of other senior administration officials in the run-up to war during 2002.

..."There's a lot I could say about what you're asking about, if I were willing to get distracted from the main subject," Wolfowitz said. "But I really think there's a price paid with the people I've just spent time with, people who are struggling with very real problems, to keep going back in history.

"There will be a time and place to talk about history," he added, "but I really don't believe it's now."

Sure Paul. How about when hell freezes over? Think you'll be ready to talk about it then? And do you really believe that a guy who was a major architect of the invasion and the focus of one of the newly disclosed memos, wouldn't bother to read documents that are freely available on the internet and have been viewed by millions?

As Peter Hart, a media analyst with Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, said,

"The fact that Wolfowitz will not discuss these issues underscores the importance of these memos and what they mean."

And the fact that he would deny reading them, as any normal human being in his position would have done, goes to show how reflexive lying has become with this crowd. They lie when the truth would do just as well.

It would have been much more credible to say he read them and had no comment. But these guys have political power and apparently couldn't care less about their credibility with the public.