Neocons ride again! With Paul Wolfowitz whispering in Trump’s ear — and claiming Iraq was not a failure — what fresh hell awaits? -- Salon

It was entirely predictable that as soon as President Donald Trump decided to drop some bombs on a Middle Eastern country the neoconservative claque that had rejected him during the election would slither back into the GOP orbit. It's true that Trump himself had nixed the appointment of Elliott Abrams, the man the Republican establishment chose to be Rex Tillerson's right hand man. That rejection had some people hopeful that Steve Bannon (whom Abrams blamed) would at least prove useful in keeping architects of the GOP’s tragic adventures in Central America and the Middle East out of this White House. ...
http://www.salon.com/2017/04/25/neocons-ride-again-with-paul-wolfowitz-whispering-in-trumps-ear-and-claiming-iraq-was-not-a-failure-what-fresh-hell-awaits/

Wolfowitz wrongly says Germany, France thought Iraq had WMD

Fifteen years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the debate continues over the events that led to the Iraq War.

Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press on the anniversary of the attacks, Paul Wolfowitz took questions from host Chuck Todd on the causes and outcomes of the war. Todd asked Wolfowitz, a former deputy secretary of defense, about the war’s stated rationale, which was that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

Todd: "Let me ask you this, then, who lied? Is it bad intelligence? You know, somebody got us into this and somebody convinced the United States Congress that weapons of mass destruction were imminent in Iraq, which is why so many Democrats and Republicans voted for this war. So who lied?"

Wolfowitz: "I think the original liar is Saddam Hussein, who lied about what he had and we discovered he had more. Later, it seems he was lying that he had more than he really did have because he wanted to supposedly deceive the Iranians. The fact is, every intelligence service in the world, not just the Americans, the British, the Germans, the French, countries that opposed us in the war all believe that he had weapons of mass destruction."...
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/sep/13/paul-wolfowitz/wolfowitz-wrongly-says-germany-france-thought-iraq/