Paul Wolfowitz, mayor of Baghdad.
By on May 29th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Paul Wolfowitz, mayor of Baghdad.
“Paul Wolfowitz may have been ousted from his post at the World Bank, but a free-speaking GOP lawmaker has an idea to keep the so-called ‘architect’ of the Iraq War from standing in the unemployment line. ‘I would like to suggest…that maybe we give Paul Wolfowitz a new job and send him over [to Iraq] as mayor,’ said Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., ‘since the neocons got us in over there.’”
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What a phenomenally horrible idea!!!
May 29th, 2007 at 1:49 pmTo take back our country we need to Impeach Cheney and then Bush!
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May 29th, 2007 at 1:50 pm“I would like to suggest…that maybe we give Paul Wolfowitz a new job and send him over [to Iraq] as mayor,” said Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., “since the neocons got us in over there.”
And the republicans start eating their own.
More popcorn….
May 29th, 2007 at 1:51 pmwell, he can preside from the new palace … I mean embassy, we’re building over there. heh, send him over there so the administration doesn’t have to deal with the fallout over his incompetence over here.
May 29th, 2007 at 1:53 pmI don’t think they have ‘mayors’ there, but assistant grand poobah to the caliph in charge of wandering around starting trouble might work.
May 29th, 2007 at 1:53 pmI know that I, and I’m sure others, floated this very idea on this board some time ago. (Can you smell the thick stench of sarcasm?)
May 29th, 2007 at 1:53 pmEven better, have him go door to door in Baghdad explaining how the lack of electricity and sewer service is all the fault of the ungrateful Iraqi people
May 29th, 2007 at 1:54 pmThat Embassy is going to need some tidying up….maybe Wolfie could be the groundskeeper….gardening is theraputic, after all, and he’s so bitter from the media destroying his career and his girlfriend dumping him. I’d say this could be just the thing.
May 29th, 2007 at 1:54 pmIt’s called Cannabilism Politics…
May 29th, 2007 at 1:55 pmExcellent…..
I’m sure Wolfie will be pouncing on that idea. Not.
May 29th, 2007 at 1:56 pmWhat a phenomenally horrible idea!!!
Comment by Crump’s Brother — May 29, 2007 @ 1:49 pm
Not sure if you’re thinking this one through, or maybe being facetious. I can’t think of anything I’d rather see, other than an end to the war in Iraq of course.
May 29th, 2007 at 2:00 pmIf only we really could send his whiney heiny over there – would that not be sweet? Sending monkey boy, darth, donnie and condi… dreamin’ here…
On a realistic note though, if walter freedom fries came up with this excellent idea.. it’s getting interesting. The con men, it would seem, are in fact beginning to eat their own.
Seriously though, 10 more of our bravest lost over the week-end. When are we going to take to the streets? Sometimes I think the outrage is beginning to simmer. How many more dead untils the boiling point? I am so ready to break something!
May 29th, 2007 at 2:06 pmWolfie the mayor of Baghdad? Boy the GOPers are a crazy bunch of nuts!
May 29th, 2007 at 2:08 pm#12 Deb – I’ll bet we could trade your list to the “evil doers†in exchange for about 50 years of peace if it was negotiated properly. We might have to toss in 41 and a few others too but it could be done. If they were real patriots they would volunteer.
May 29th, 2007 at 2:13 pmRudy has more experience both in being a mayor and in mishandling a disaster.
May 29th, 2007 at 2:19 pm#14 – Dreary U.,
Call me nuts but I really think that IF we could somehow get rid (as in right now – not waiting for ‘08 – you define “rid”) of the folks that started this nightmare, we would be a long way toward getting back the peace in whatever measure it existed before. Osama & his buds are sitting in a cave somewhere high fiving and laughing their turbans off.
These neocon fools have poured gasoline on a fire and don’t care how many Americans, Iraqis or anyone else gets burned. They need to be held accountable in front of the whole world. Only then will we get the help we need to put an end to the hatred that’s been inflamed toward us. When you tell the rest of the world to basically go (you know what darth-family-values-morals-guy said to leahy), we’re the ones who’re pretty much screwed.
Ok – my speech for the day.
May 29th, 2007 at 2:43 pmMy idea (last week) was for Wolfie to try the education sector, given that there’s a new opening in the very top spot at Liberty University…
May 29th, 2007 at 2:50 pmWouldn’t it be more appropriate to call him governor? Empires appoint governors, not mayors, I thought. Unfortunately, we may be giving the Bushies ideas here. Appoint someone who is Jewish as governor of Baghdad. Sounds just exactly like something they would do.
May 29th, 2007 at 2:53 pmWhat a great idea! That way, when McCain and Graham want to go shopping in Bagdhad square, Wolfie can escort them.
May 29th, 2007 at 3:18 pmActually, I kind of like the idea as long as he doesn’t get a flak jacket and can’t ride in an armored Humvee. I would love to see Wolfie in harms way every day. Because that’s what he did to our US military, putting them in a position where they are in harms way every day.
I can’t believe this suggestion came from a RepubliCON. I loved this parting line, ‘since the neocons got us in over there.’. It looks like the RepubliCONS up for reelection are clearly departing a sinking ship.
May 29th, 2007 at 3:39 pmOne would think, given Mr. Wolfowitz’s enthusiasm for regime change in the run-up to the war, that he would now be doing everything he could to help out. Doulglas Feith could pitch in as well. They knew that the course of action they were advocating would require major sacrifices. A good way for them to show that they really believed what they were shoveling in 2002 is for them to spend at least a few months, helping Iraq rebuild its infrastructure.
May 29th, 2007 at 4:03 pmwow, a republican with a good idea. will wonders never cease.
May 29th, 2007 at 4:07 pmthis is why they hate us & have a right to….to suggest a corrupt jew as mayor of a a arab city….
May 29th, 2007 at 4:53 pmWolfy a mayor in Iraq!
HA HA HA HA!
These people really are retards.
May 29th, 2007 at 5:54 pmUh, I think you folks are missing Jones’ point.
He used to be a staunch supporter of the Iraq War and now he’s one of the few Republicans against the war. I think he wants to send the entire neocon crew over there to experience the mess they created.
It is a good idea, but I think he would have a hard time convincing Wolfie and his neocon buddies to actually go there.
May 29th, 2007 at 7:36 pmJust like a Republican to suggest a promotion for a miserable failure.
May 29th, 2007 at 9:03 pmEven better, have him go door to door in Baghdad explaining how the lack of electricity and sewer service is all the fault of the ungrateful Iraqi people.
Comment by RUCerious
Great idea! But presumably he won’t make it past too many doors. Or is that wishful thinking?
May 29th, 2007 at 10:17 pm“send them over there so we can cover their scandels over here”
May 30th, 2007 at 5:35 pm