Frustrations with Wolfowitz ‘boil over at meeting.’
Frustrations with Wolfowitz ‘boil over at meeting.’
Paul Wolfowitz was “confronted by one of his top deputies” at a World Bank meeting last week:
Graeme Wheeler, the bank’s managing director, said at the meeting that the fight over whether Mr. Wolfowitz should stay on at the bank amounted to the “the biggest crisis in its history.”
He said it arose from a range of issues, including fears that Mr. Wolfowitz and his aides were trying to impose Bush administration ideas on family planning and climate change at the bank and worries over a possible conflict of interest in the bank’s hiring of a Washington law firm, Williams & Connolly, to investigate leaks. A partner at the firm had earlier negotiated Mr. Wolfowitz’s employment contract with the bank.
Mr. Wheeler also said Mr. Wolfowitz’s staying on would cause “fantastic damage” to the bank’s reputation and effectiveness.
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Heh.
It’s amazing Wolfie keeps hanging on….
April 25th, 2007 at 1:01 amYeah, just resign already, you hack.
April 25th, 2007 at 1:02 amArrogant and self serving are the two primary personality characteristics required of bush appointees. . . wolfowitz is proving he exceeds those requirements.
April 25th, 2007 at 1:07 amMy questions: (1) Who signs the crooked bastard’s pay checks? (2) Why?
April 25th, 2007 at 1:11 amCheney Impeachment documents at this link…
http://kucinich.house.gov/SpotlightIssues/documents.htm
Comment by Saywho — April 25, 2007 @ 12:54 am
April 25th, 2007 at 1:12 amHeh.
It’s amazing Wolfie keeps hanging on….
Comment by Zooey
Obviously he doesn’t care how low Bush’s poll numbers get.
April 25th, 2007 at 1:19 amThese guys (Bush Appontees) are so stupid, they will keep a Republican out of the whitehouse for the next 8 -12 years.
Let him hang on by his grimy toes as long as possible.
I don’t get it! Everyone’s calling for this jackass to resign. Why can’t he be fired? It’s ridiculous!
April 25th, 2007 at 1:21 am#7 Rich people don’t get fired.
April 25th, 2007 at 1:22 amI don’t get it! Everyone’s calling for this jackass to resign. Why can’t he be fired? It’s ridiculous!
Comment by bedonkadonk
He was appointed by Bush.
April 25th, 2007 at 1:27 amneither do “loyal Bushies”…
April 25th, 2007 at 1:27 amGraeme Wheeler, the bank’s managing director, said… that the fight over whether Mr. Wolfowitz should stay on at the bank amounted to the “the biggest crisis in its history… and that it arose from a range of issues, including fears that Mr. Wolfowitz and his aides were trying to impose Bush administration ideas on family planning and climate change at the bank…
Fears that… fears that? What’s to be afraid of? Ther should be no uncertainly, doubts, or fears at all here. BushCo is once again ramrodding its agenda down the throat of yet another organization it has no use or respect for. The Bushies show nothing but contempt for anyone who doesn’t kneel over for them and they will not stop unless YOU stop them.
I’m not quite sure what the ultimate goal is here, but sure as the endless shit that pours from Rush Limbaugh’s open, gaping mouth, they creeps are out to do as much damage to world as possible. They’ll just keep stealing and lying and killing until we stop them, period.
April 25th, 2007 at 1:31 amWhat ole’ Wolfie trying to push the sick Bush agenda on the World Bank, nah, couldn’t happen, no way, Bush and Cheney are too busy restoring honor and dignity in the whitehouse…….man I just hate these neocon scum sucking sickos, just hate them all to hell and back.
Hating the Repuke Mafia daily
April 25th, 2007 at 1:34 amFantastic destruction is Bush’s specialty
April 25th, 2007 at 1:38 amold hack, you just might be right… destruction for destruction’s sake alone. Remeber, we are dealing w/ a man who apparently got his jollies as a sick little boy by blowing up frogs w/ firecrackers.
April 25th, 2007 at 1:47 amTypical Bush: if he can’t have all the marbles, he makes sure no one else can play the game.
April 25th, 2007 at 3:35 amWhat goes unsaid are the under the table threats. Mr. Bush is undoubtedly having it made clear that he’ll withhold funding, cooperation, etc., if he can’t have his way with his man. Kinda like the shower in Attica.
The governors could fire Mr. Wolfowitz. They won’t until they reach agreement on what happens then. Mr. Bush, being Shrub, might just re-appoint him, since he can’t recess appoint him, or appoint John Bolton or another wingnut. Then it’s just a hissing contest.
We all know how Dubya likes to knee-go-she-ate. He may spin this one out for his domestic peanut gallery, to show that he’s a man and them furriners ain’t. So what if the Bank’s projects and staff go kerphlooey. Leader of the Free World. Right.
April 25th, 2007 at 3:45 amThis is just small stuff for Wolfie. When your resume lists ‘lied to whole world’, ‘ major responsibility for starting a war’, ‘helped kill half a million Iraqis’, ‘contributed to massive upheaval in the Middle East’, ’strengthened terrorist organisations’ and ’spent billions to kill over 3 000 American soldiers, wound ten of thousands more, and lead to a military and political defeat’, a small matter of nepotism and corruption can be passed over pretty easily,
April 25th, 2007 at 5:57 amThe World Bank has been destroyed by Wolfowitz, but that is why Bush Regime wanted him there to wreak the bank from within.
April 25th, 2007 at 7:59 amHe will arrogantly hold his ground.
April 25th, 2007 at 9:02 amI’m convinced that he is a plant at the bank to support iraq oil field privitization for the Cheney crowd.
Lets hope the pressure mounts by the day. He is only a cog in the cabal.
Mr. Wheeler also said Mr. Wolfowitz’s staying on would cause “fantastic damage†to the bank’s reputation and effectiveness.
then fire him…
April 25th, 2007 at 9:13 amseriously, why don’t they fire his ass? …
so what if dubya appointed him – it’s the WORLD BANK…
i don’t get it…
Is it just me or are all Bushies like that old SNL skit “The Thing That Wouldn’t Leave.” These turds entrench themselves and even Ultra Powerful Drano can’t get them to budge. They are a lot like the neighborhood bully who, when you asked him to leave YOUR home, said “no, make me” and would be there until you kicked his ass. Makes sense doesn’t it? Can’t you see Bush as one of those kids? What a bunch of turds.
April 25th, 2007 at 9:40 amBut Wolfowitz enjoys the “full confidence” of President Bush.
Just like Alberto Gonzales, Donald Rumsfeld, Harriet Miers, John Snow, Bernard Kerik…
April 25th, 2007 at 10:27 amThe board can’t fire him. Only the US pres can according to how the WB was set up, and that’s never been done before. Maybe this will get the Europeans/Asians to change the rule but I would guess The Wolf will be out of there along with Bush in 18 months, both doing as much damage to us all while they can.
April 25th, 2007 at 11:07 amThis is the same story for all Bush appointies. They are all corrupt, incompetent, and all are trying to use their position to force ideals on to other people.
I sure am sick of it. How much longer?
April 25th, 2007 at 11:11 amThat’s what you get for having anything to do with the monkey boy administration. Everything they touch turns to crap.
April 25th, 2007 at 11:24 amWolfowitz is nothing more than a pimp. And it’ hard out here for a pimp.
What most of you don’t seem to understand is that a pimp is insensate to the harm that his ho and whoring ways may inflict on other individuals and society in general. He main — nay, his ONLY! — concern is that he gets paid!
It’s hard out here for a pimp.
April 25th, 2007 at 11:37 amas long as there are still two dimes left to steal, Wolfowitz will remain at the world bank.
April 25th, 2007 at 12:32 pm