Wolfowitz must be told to resign now Financial Times

[biscotti]

Financial Times:
The president of the World Bank has one asset: his credibility. The Bank’s capacity to make a difference lies not in its money and ideas but in its ability to be the world’s voice for development. This includes, as Paul Wolfowitz, the current president, has insisted, being the voice for good governance. Recent revelations have, however, demonstrated such serious failures that the Bank’s moral authority is endangered. If the president stays, it risks becoming an object not of respect, but of scorn, and its campaign in favour of good governance not a believable struggle, but blatant hypocrisy.

It is important to understand what is not at issue here. It is not Mr Wolfowitz’s unpopularity, even though his role as an architect of the Iraq war made him disliked from the start. It is not failures of management, even though his reliance on a group of outside appointees made him mistrusted by many inside and outside the Bank. It is not disagreements over development doctrine, where some convergence of views has occurred. It is not a romantic relationship with a subordinate, itself hardly a rarity in today’s world.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/18b3bad0-e914-11db-a162-000b5df10621.html

[ck4829]

1. K&R

[Jacobin]

2. Okay. Make him the Duke of Dumbfuckistan, then

Gawd help whoever he gets moved to next.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Or the Count of Comblick

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Wolfowitz...had no credibility when the took the job...

He had already lied to start a war in Iraq.

[rumpel]

5. k&r

I never understood why they approved him in the first place...

[bdamomma]

6. I heard this report on BBC news and this guy has the nerve

to say "I'm sorry" what!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm sorry is not going to cut it Wolfie.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6548291.stm


Wolfowitz apologises over pay row

Mr Wolfowitz has been on a campaign to target corruption
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has apologised for "mistakes" made over the promotion and pay of a ex-colleague with whom he is romantically involved.

[Turbineguy]

7. Wasn't Chimpy looking

for a War Czar?

[Nimrod2005]

8. Maybe he and Gonzo can go open a bar together....nt

[jwirr]

11. And reserve a booth for their drunken pResident.

[eringer]

9. Guess who Shaha Riza Works for at State?

Per Wikipedia, "She is presently working for Dick Cheney's daughter, Liz Cheney, in the State Department." Small world, isn't it?

[Raven]

10. The king of anti-corruption is corrupt.

He cut off aid to Congo because he said it was corrupt...people are starving there and this fat little slimey shit is still pulling a fat paycheck. We are beginning to look alot like some of the third world nations he's criticized.

[Supersedeas]

14. so goes this Administration of Corporate Cronies

[The Blue Flower]

12. The legendary anti-Midas touch of the *ies

nt

[sofa king]

13. Years down the road, the World Bank will be remembered as the biggest Bush crime.

No, I don't know this for sure. But it's simple to deduce. You take one of the most important criminal conspirators of the Bush Administration, architect of the 9/11 attacks and the Gulf War, and you put him in charge of the World Bank even though he has not a lick of experience in that field.

Why?

Because he's offloading the hidden assets of the federal government into the hands of the criminal elite that now runs it, that's why.

The evening before 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference to announce that he didn't know where a trillion dollars had gone out of Defense Department coffers. Now ask yourself: where did the Iraqi treasury go? Where is the CIA putting all of its opium profits? How are all of our criminal defense contractors paying the bribes that this most criminal White House certainly requires in return?

Paul Wolfowitz knows.

[Synnical]

15. "Bank’s moral authority"

ROFLMAO!

Criminey, does anyone not remember the Battle in Seattle and the reasons for that raging protest?