'''David Wurmser''' replaced [[Eric Edelman]] as Principal Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs in the Office of Vice President [[Dick Cheney]] in early September 2003, after Edelman was named Ambassador to Turkey. [http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis_more/86_0_15_0_M/] [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/24997.htm]
Wurmser , a [[neo-conservative]], previously served as a "special assistant " to [[John R. Bolton]] at the State Department[http://www.hargravepublishing.com/IraqWar.htm] and was a former research fellow on the Middle East at the [[American Enterprise Institute]] (AEI)[http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/wurmser_d/wurmser-d.php].
==Longtime supporter of Chalabi's Iraq National Congress==