Do You Think Wolfowitz's "Near Miss" Has Changed Him?

[rucky]

Now that he's experienced violence first-hand, will that change his views about sending kids off to war?

OR

Is he still a chickenhawk who's now some kinda chickenhawk hero because he survived actual danger? Has this attack solidified his hatred toward brown people?

will he get a medal? new pajamas?


It's a traumatic event - life changing to most... and Wolfie IS a human being. Isn't he? ... OK so the jury's still out on that one.

[Tatiana]

1. He is and always will be a chickenhawk like the rest.

People like him don't think rationally. The neocons will probably spin it as the "devil" trying to "attack him" and G-d "saving him."

I doubt the man even has a conscience.

[mlawson]

2. July 20 1944 didn't change hitler.

It just made him meaner.... If possible.

[ComerPerro]

3. I think he will be seen as a hero

Also, be glad it was just Wolfowitz. If it was anyone higher up, conservatives would say that God was protecting him.

[Malva Zebrina]

4. Nah

He will find some way to reconcile his accruing and making of his fortune and be gloriously happy with it. People who do not have a conscience do not reflect and agonize over their brutal decisions--in their mind, they always see to it that they will come out right--

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. No it wasn't a near death experience. Nothing transformative about it.

[RetroLounge]

6. Not a single iota

He was on Faux last night talking about meeting with all the wounded from the rocket attack and posing for photos with them.

Just another Chicken Hawk photo op...

[Cha]

7. What happened? I missed some DU days and no telling

what all has gone down. Thanks!

[evworldeditor]

8. He was clearly shaken by the experience

When I saw him on the video shot by NBC, I felt a momentary twinge of satisfaction at his disheveled look and the obvious fear in his eyes.

Will it change him? One can only hope, but it's a horrible way to learn a lesson... the cost is just too damned high for everyone involved.

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We're referring to the attack on the hotel in Baghdad that nearly took out Paul Wolfowitz over the weekend.

[Cha]

12. Wow! wolfie was in there?! Why do the Mean ones

get away and the innocents die?

[childslibrarian]

9. Oh yeah, right...

hope springs eternal...

[retread]

10. The only thing changed on that day was his underwear!

*

[asjr]

13. wolfie

L O L

[cliss]

11. I have a hard time believing that a

rude dose of reality would make him change his views. The man was, and still is, one of the principal planners of the war. He knew what would happen. He knew Iraqis by the thousands would be killed as "collateral damage". He was also aware that there would be US casualties.

He probably still feels that, as long as the numbers don't reach huge numbers or start increasing drastically, they are going to stay the course, as they have very clearly stated. Rums-filled once said that the "US casualties are much less than people who get killed in traffic accidents back home, to it's OK". He was quickly censored on that one.

So: NO. They have set themselves on a course, and it would take MANY more US deaths, a much larger public outcry and countless demonstrations, for them to throw in the towel. "Damn the torpedoes".

[Dr Fate]

14. do you have a link for that Rumsfeld quote?

??

[DinahMoeHum]

15. Naaah. Guys like him don't ripen, they rot. . .

and somewhere along the line he'll paint himself as a hero if he didn't piddle his pants in Iraq.

:evilfrown:

[Blue-Jay]

16. Only a Direct Hit would've changed Wolfie

For the better, I might add.

(I swear, Mr Ashcroft, someone was using my sign-on to post that.)

[onecitizen]

17. Nope! Other than he.............

won't EVER go back over there but he'll still wanna send OUR children there.

[Lindacooks]

18. He probably

won't be going back there anytime soon. Somebody should keep track of how many weeks, months, years, he stays away.

Chickenhawk.

[Postman]

19. Assassination attempts of Hitler didn't change anything.

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