SINGAPORE: United States Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz has played down his reported comments that the US chose to focus on Saddam Hussein's suspected weapons of mass destruction for bureaucratic reasons in the drive for war against Iraq.
In an interview with Vanity Fair magazine, Wolfowitz was quoted as saying a huge result of the war was to enable Washington to withdraw its troops from Saudi Arabia.
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