No U.S. president can justify a policy that fails to achieve its intended results by pointing to the purity and rectitude of his intentions... - Paul Wolfowitz, "Statesmanship in the New Century," in Kagan, R. and Kristol, W, eds. Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy, San Francisco, 2000, p. 335.yes, the year reference there is 2000.
[ cf Paul Wolfowitz Slams George W. Bush ]
So clearly this was Wolfowitz stabbing the troops in the back pre-emptively?