‘Radical hawk’ Cheney aide resigns.
By on Jul 24th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
‘Radical hawk’ Cheney aide resigns.
David Wurmser, “Cheney’s chief adviser on Middle East affairs and perhaps the Bush administration’s most radical hawk,” is reportedly leaving his position for the private sector, “where he will start a risk-consulting business.” In 1996, Wurmser, along with Richard Perle and Douglas Feith, wrote a plan for how to destroy Hezbollah by invading Iraq.
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Isn’t Wurmser another signatory of the Rebuilding Americas Defenses PNAC document that called for a “new Pearl Harbor?”
July 24th, 2007 at 1:35 pmhey, how’s that hezbollah-destroying thing working out for you, david?
July 24th, 2007 at 1:37 pmAnd then there were none.
July 24th, 2007 at 1:37 pmWasn’t Wurmser the dean in Animal House?
July 24th, 2007 at 1:38 pmThe worm turns!
July 24th, 2007 at 1:38 pmAnother neocon bailing on the failed Iraq policy they so strongly endorsed and “believed” in.
July 24th, 2007 at 1:38 pmI’m sure he and his expertise will be missed.
July 24th, 2007 at 1:38 pmAnd it’s not even Friday afternoon!
July 24th, 2007 at 1:39 pmAnd who’d hire this clown as a “risk analyst”???
July 24th, 2007 at 1:39 pmWhat a coincidence; I have a plan for overthrowing the Sudanese government by invading Kenya. Wurmser will be perfect for risk management, provided if by “risk” you mean “catastrophe,” and by “management” you mean “creation.”
July 24th, 2007 at 1:40 pmI’m sure he and his expertise will be missed.
Comment by Thrasymachos — July 24, 2007 @ 1:38 pm
Yes, we see how well that expertise has worked so far.
July 24th, 2007 at 1:40 pm7. His expertise on what? Screwing up the fight against terrorism by invading and occupying Iraq?
July 24th, 2007 at 1:41 pmNow Darth will have to find another lackey to bring him his bubbling puppy blood after lunch.
July 24th, 2007 at 1:43 pmWalt,
Wurmser was in Revenge of the Nerds
Wormer was the dean in Animal House.
July 24th, 2007 at 1:44 pmI don’t believe there’s much demand for risk enhancement in most endeavors outside the Bush administration. But, hey, good luck Wurmsie.
July 24th, 2007 at 1:47 pmWasn’t Wurmser the dean in Animal House?
Comment by WaltTheMan
That was “Wermer” – Dean Wermer, of “double secret probation” fame.
July 24th, 2007 at 1:48 pmall his (no-bid) consulting contracts will, no doubt, come straight from the DoD via Cheneyburton
tally one more psychopath who will die rich with our tax money in exchange for his worthless, deranged, shameful, pseudo-service
btw, is hezbollah gone now that we’re in iraq?….
y, didn’t think so
The Right – Safehaven for stunningly mediocre minds (the kinds of minds that really impress the sub-mediocre minds of righty voters)
July 24th, 2007 at 1:49 pmI’m only trolling because it distracts me from my “Greek” thoughts. I’ll admit it: I like being Greek with Republican fratboys.
July 24th, 2007 at 1:49 pm“where he will start a risk-consulting business…”
What would that be… how much of a prison term you might get for this felony versus that felony?
July 24th, 2007 at 1:49 pmI like being Greek with Republican fratboys.
Comment by Thrasymacho
Must… resist… making OBVIOUS snide remark…
July 24th, 2007 at 1:50 pm“You’re doin’ a heckuva job, Wurmsie!”
Good luck with that risk-consulting business — though I doubt that anyone will think you have enough expertise in that area to break your way out of a wet paper bag.
July 24th, 2007 at 1:53 pmComment by Thrasymachos
I thought “thrasymachos” was an obscure but rapidly spreading STD.
July 24th, 2007 at 1:53 pmI’m only trolling because it distracts me from my “Greek†thoughts. I’ll admit it: I like being Greek with Republican fratboys.
Comment by Thrasymacho
Read the thread, why do they all have to be about you? Contrary to what your mother might have taught you, the world does not revolve around you.
July 24th, 2007 at 1:57 pm3…2…1…ane Mr. P arrives to tell us his new name has been namejacked.
Let me say preemptively, trashynotmacho, nobody cares.
July 24th, 2007 at 1:59 pmYeah, I heard Haliburton is doing terrific benefits. What a better moment to reap the dirty money resulting of the Iraq War fiasco?
July 24th, 2007 at 2:08 pmWurmser is on record before the war saying that Iraq is only held together by a strong-arm dictator and removing him would collapse the country… inexplicably he then went to work for Cheney as his Middle East expert.
That strikes me like Exxon hiring Gore to give them daily updates on the ice shelf.
July 24th, 2007 at 2:12 pmReminds me of spoiled brats who trash the room, then run like hell when they are supposed to stay and clean up.
July 24th, 2007 at 2:13 pmThe only risk he manages is somebody else’s life and fortune.
July 24th, 2007 at 2:18 pmThis feeble, wrong twat is true think-tank material.
July 24th, 2007 at 2:40 pmDon’t worry Wormboy has lots to do with his dual citizenship and AIPAC agenda items.
July 24th, 2007 at 2:47 pmI thought that was Revenge of the Nerds?
July 24th, 2007 at 3:28 pmWell, Cheney still has Booger and the limp- wristed Lavar Latrelle.
July 24th, 2007 at 3:46 pmDirty Dick does do despicable deeds.
Is Wurmy on double secret probation?
Has AIPAC approved this yet?
Neoturds are by far the biggest risk this county faces today.
July 24th, 2007 at 4:00 pmWell obviously, as one of the main people who got us into the Iraq war, he’s shown that he is a genius as assessing risk. He’s got my business!
July 24th, 2007 at 8:24 pmEven the hardcore guys are leaving Bushco.
Things must be pretty bad.
They probably are beginning to not believe the sh*t they spewed when they had some “credibility.”
They are crawling back to their think tank world of fantasy.
July 24th, 2007 at 9:06 pmI pity the fools that hire this mo-ron to manage any risk that involves any decisions more important than deciding whether or not soaping your zipper will make it more likely to snag your willy.
Oh, yeah, that’s been all of us, hasn’t it.
No more, good riddance, asschancre.
July 25th, 2007 at 7:37 amGodspeed Dave Wurmser. We know Jews didn’t attack the World Trade Center back when Clinton was president, and Jews didn’t attack the WTC 8 years later on 9-11. Jews and Israel didn’t attack the Cole, didn’t attack the London transportation system, didn’t attach the Madrid train stations, and didn’t attack the Kobar towers.
As you recall, after 9-11, the anti-semites went into hiding. Pat Buchanan turned into a little quiet mouse. Israel was the good guy, and the democrats and the US congress overwhelmingly voted for war in Iraq and against terrorism.
Now that we’ve found the war against terror isn’t easy, and now that we’ve found that we have no stomach to confront terrorism any more, the anti-semites have come out of the wood-work. This is no surprise. And it will also be no surprise when Islamic Fundamentalists suceed in further attacking our country. No matter who our next administration is, you can bet Islamic Terrorism will be there to undermine our security both domestically and abroad.
July 28th, 2007 at 12:08 pm