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Sunday, February 27, 2011

Obama administration in recent weeks for its response to the crisis in Libya, saying the president has been "too slow" to condemn leader Muammar Gaddafi. But in an interview with CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" on Sunday, Wolfowitz also went after his former boss for going too far in normalizing relations with Libya.

In 2003, President Bush announced that although Libya had been developing weapons of mass destruction, Gaddafi had "agreed to immediately and unconditionally allow inspectors from international organizations to enter Libya." "These inspectors will render an accounting of all nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and will help oversee their elimination," Bush said.

Wolfowitz, who served as Deputy Secretary of Defense until June 2005, seemed to imply that he disagreed with some of the administration's decisions at the time, and he thought the president went too far.

"Look, I think we needed to give some acknowledgment to the fact that he handed over his nuclear weapons program, but it was an illegal program," said Wolfowitz. "And I thought we were giving him a lot by, in effect, saying you won't suffer the fate of Saddam Hussein. I don't think we had to go nearly as far as we went. There was a lot of pressure from the Pan Am 103 families because they wanted to collect the money that Gadhafi was offered."

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