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James Woolsey, former CIA director will be speaking to Purdue students today at the university’s Loeb play house.
Woolsey, who worked under Clinton (1993-1995) as CIA director, currently is Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton, member of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) Board of Advisors, Advisor of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, Founding Member of the Set America Free Coalition. (Wikipedia)
A neocon, Woolsey advocated attacking Iraq and toppling Saddam’s government way before 9/11.During 1998 Time magazine’s weekly forum on Yahoo, said that US should attack Iraq but the mission could be a long drawn one. He insisted on political change within the country too, by supporting Iraqi dissidents living abroad and the Kurds. Source:
Ahmad Chalabi, member of Iraqi National Congress was one such Iraqi dissident. Now discredited after he was found falsifying intelligence information on Saddam Hussein and the weapons programs and accused of spying for Iran, he was once very close to the Bush administration and power players like Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle. James Woolsey was Chalabi’s attorney. According to Steve Clemons at HuffingtonPost “Woolsey helped enable Chalabi, his intel chief, the Iraqi National Congress operation, and the war against Saddam by being the first on national television on September 11, 2001 to allege a connection between the 9/11 terrorist attacks and Saddam Hussein. Woolsey failed to disclose on TV when making these comments that he was not only a pundit commentator on the attacks -- but was also Ahmed Chalabi's attorney.”Source:
Woolsey’s fascination with war does not end with Iraq. More recently he is making rounds calling for “regime change” in Iran and “bomb” Syria. During an interview with an Israeli TV he is reported as saying “there might be no alternative to attacking Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons.” Source:
Although Woolsey is scheduled to speak on “safe” topic of energy independence and alternative energy, some students and local activists hope to have a strong debate, asking him about Iraq war and his position on Iran,
