Letters to the Editor
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So what happens now?
Wolfowitz has enriched himself and his sycophants, at the expense of the DoD, the World Bank, the US military, American taxpayers, the country of Iraq, untold Iraqi citizens, and the peace and stability of the entire world. Is the heaviest price he will be forced pay merely to be losing his position at the World Bank?
No prosecution for treason? For crimes against humanity? No reparations? No prison time at Abu Ghraib?
Personally, I could probably be persuaded to support half-hanging, drawing and quartering, and having his head placed on a pike for all to deride for the next 25 years. But that is only because I can't think of a punishment that rises to the level of his crimes.
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Hope the Bank grows a spine
If fear of Bush is all that's preventing the Bank's directors from firing Wolfowitz, then they do not have my sympathy. Bush will be gone in less than two years and the U.S. will continue to support the bank to the extent that is justifiable. If they give their cojones to Bush, what do they gain?
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Morality only applies to sex
The clear lesson from this, Clinton's impeachment, and Bush's non-impeachment, is that only sexual morality counts anymore. Ethics, the concept of acting in a way to not harm others, is dead. No one cares. Wolfowitz screwed up everything he touched with unethical hiring practices and the preposterous stove-piping. But man, when he has unmarried sex and gets caught, he has got to go. When Clinton gets a blowjob from a non wife, 1053 subpeonas are justified. Bush plays the fool who followed a fool (Wolfowitz) and we give him a pass for being an idiot. I personally think this goes back to the Reagan revolution, when anything done in the name of business became acceptable, but extra marital sex became a high crime and a misdemeanor.
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Ah yest the oil for food scandal at the UN
Oh wait we weren't talking about those thieves. My bad.
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The clearest, most important writing about Iraq and Republican corruption to date!
"Without cronyism, tag-teaming, and running circles around opponents of the war such as Secretary of State Colin Powell and CIA Director George Tenet, the pro-war cabal could never have persuaded Bush to launch the conflict or persuaded the American public to support it."
I don't doubt the truth of this article, and if the above statement is true--and it is--then it should be printed on the front page of every newspaper in this country, both print and online formats.
What's disgusting is not only one man's ability to influence this country's highest leadership into war by manipulating the facts (someone give Bush an IQ test, please!), but his uncontested power to create wealth and stature for his personal fiefdom, his mercenaries assigned to change the course of the world through stealth.
Now, here's a workplace where Imus could properly use his "ho's" labels and do some good for the world.
And Bush supports this creature, the Wolfwitz. People, what does that tell you? Why isn't this person being charged as a traitor; he has the blood of of thousands of people-- American, Iraqi, Italian-- on his hands.
I plan to send this article to my elected officials. I plan to write letters to editors of every newspaper I can think of to put this creature under a burning spotlight. And Bush's love for him...I think that Bush is desperate to cover up his fatal idiocy by retaining his exposed crew.
This is worse, much worse, than Watergate. I move to impeach Dubya Bush.
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Under French law, a sitting president can't be indicted
It will be interesting to see the fallout to Chirac now that he lost his immunity and there have been serious noises of corruption, treason even, going back years. As if somehow they are immune from the same corporate hackery as everyone else.
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He's just a bully
Wolfowitz's style (and I love the way you have framed it, Juan) is simply the style of a bully. Like all bullies, he surrounds himself with quislings, belittles and abuses more qualified people who don't suck up to him, and is pretty much oblivious to the harm he is causing. There are bullies like him in every corporate office, every university, every religious organization and pretty much every where else. I'm sorry that even the trustees of the World Bank didn't have the guts and integrity to bring this one down a peg, but in every organization there is usually someone willing to take on the bully. Most of the time they risk a lot and lose a lot, but they serve us well and they have, at the end of the day, both guts and integrity. In Wolfowitz's case, as in the case of so many in the current administration, that person has not yet stepped up. I have confidence that she will.
Pax,
Dave Throgmorton
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The World Bank is not enough
Neocons serve a higher cause and do not regard themeselves as subject to the endless petit bourgeois restrictions that are set in place to limit the rest of us. Since they pursue a higher truth, they cannot allow their actions or their words to be limited by a literal truth. They create facts, they are not subservient to them. No doubt Mr. Wolfowitz was able to rationalize his actions vis a vis his neosqueeze as necessary to remove any emotional distractions that might divert him, however briefly, from his noble goals. Assuming of course, he was weak enough for a brief moment to even consider rationalization a necessity.
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EXACTLY!
This article is SPOT ON! and exceedingly well written. It succintly puts forth the facts and the problems with Wolfowitz et al AND this current administration.
In the real world, people like him are fired without hesitation. In the world of Washington politics, the operative word is IMPEACHMENT!
Wolfowitz needs to be fired, and the entire Bu$h administration needs to be IMPEACHED. It's that simple!
So what's the hold up?
IMPEACH
INVESTIGATE
INDICT
IMPRISON! Bu$h/Cheney and the entire rest of the nest
Pelosi in '07!
siri
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His "weakness" is he's a clueless assclown.
On else flows from that simple yet undeniable fact. And proof positive of the assertion may be easily accessed at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9nzBWcTSVM
No one with any editorial self-awareness or internal perception of self would lick a freakin' comb - and not just A comb - this was someone else's comb - one Kevin Kellems - recently deposed assistant at the World Bank and forever to be known as the Keeper of the Comb.
It's bad enough that as a disciple of Leo Strauss's execrable school of thought Wolfie learned to be an arrogant and, in the final analysis, pathetic thinker - but that does not excuse the unthinkable act of licking the freakin' comb. That is disgusting - and an overt sign of a sick mind.