Paul Wolfowitz, "The Pusher," is Back as Advisor to Jeb.

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Sadder still was the list of Jeb's advisors published this week, a list which included - and was tarnished by - the genuinely execrable Paul Wolfowitz.

For those who might have forgotten Wolfowitz, here's a quick reminder: The dust had barely settled over lower Manhattan when Wolfowitz began cooking the books for the last President Bush, seeking an Iraq connection to 9/11 where none existed. National security expert Richard Clarke was there when Wolfowitz pressured the White House intelligence team to focus, not on the terrorists who did the deed, but on Iraq - a nation which wasn't involved in the attack but had been targeted years before by the "Project for a New American Century."

As Clarke recalled, Wolfowitz's words were: "No, no, no. We don't have to deal with al Qaeda. Why are we talking about that little guy?"

Wolfowitz orchestrated the lies about the need for war against Iraq, and he was utterly, disastrously, stunningly wrong in his predictions about the course of that war. Wolfowitz claimed Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. He said the war in Iraq would pay for itself in oil revenues. (That was some $2 trillion ago.) And, most famously, Wolfowitz predicted that the Iraqi people would "greet us as liberators."

When it comes to the Iraq War, Paul Wolfowitz was - in the words of another Steppenwolf song - "The Pusher." His promotion of that conflict was the defining act of his career, and it leaves him a failure in every conceivable intellectual or moral application of that word.

The policies of the Bush/Wolfowitz crowd have led, not to democracy and development, but to chaos and collapse - and to the formation of a brutal and medieval "caliphate" which is drawing adherents from around the world.

Wolfowitz On Bin Laden: "Why are we talking about that little guy?"

Wolfowitz is the behind-the-scenes philosopher who pushed Bush & Co. to Iraq instead of going after Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. The puppeteer behind the scenes.  The pure evil behind the lesser evils. The creator behind almost all the chaos and destruction in the Middle East today. The father and mother, ultimately, of ISIS.