Letters to the Editor
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If only he could be fired...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, a vote of 85% of the Board is required for a major move such as firing Wolfowitz. The US has a voting interest of just over 16%, and there is no chance Bush will allow the US vote to be for firing. This is yet another straw on the poor camel's back of America's standing in the arena of international respect for doing what is just.
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They Won't Fire Wolfie -- they don't have the votes...
But what those nations who are disgusted by this WILL do -- little voices say -- is withhold their payments to the Bank in protest, basically turning Wolfie into a puppet until he can be disappearaed when the the next administration comes in.
Winner: Wolfie and Bush -- and Shaha of course
Losers: the poverty stricken people who benefit from World Bank support, the World Bank staff who have been railroaded and stomped on by Wolfie, Shaha and their band of thugs
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Why is Wolfowitz there in the first place?
Is there anything in Wolfowitz's past that indicates that he would act differently than he has at the World Bank? GOP patronage and incompetence has made its share of messes within the U.S., and the "rebuilding" of Iraq, so why would anyone who put Wolfowitz in a position of power expect anything else?
We see lots of ink regarding why the World Bank members want to get rid of him now. What I'm wondering is why they hired him in the first place.
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"Wolfie" Fancies Himself as a NeoCon MacNamara
He just followed in the shoes of his hero. Once again, the neocons distinguish themselves over previous "bad apples" by making their predecessors look good. Nixon is looking a lot better compared to the Monkey King. Wolfowitz makes MacNamara look like St. Francis.
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Shaken, not stirred.
Ever since Wolfowitz unleased the hideosity of the Comb Lick manuever on an unsuspecting public - it has only been a matter of time before the jug-eared clown with holes in his socks came to grief.
Unfortunately - anyone who licks a comb - and keep in mind that THE COMB he licked belonged to Kevin Kellems, his public affairs officer at the Pentagon, now known as "keeper of the comb," for having been the person to hand his infamous comb to Wolfie.
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Is it entirely relevant?
I mean everyone screamed about John Bolton's 'management style' but the real point was to blunt his attempts as prosecuting policy. Can anyone point to anything specifically bad or good the WB has done or intends to do under Wolf's tenure? Allright so the guy's creepy but no creepier than any other executive be him the head of a corporation, NGO or charity. Have you ever looked at the byzantine inner workings of the UN? The "N" is for nepotism. But here too, it's neither here nor there. Either it functions or it doesn't.
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Woofoshitz
Is Paulie's girlfriend the hooker or the hookie? What a slimeball. Nice job in Bagdhad, Woofer. What happened to those pallets full of freshly minted hundreds you had sent over there, Shitzer? Oh, right, the Iraqis have sloppy accounting techniques.
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Wolffy can't be fired and won't resign.
The word "resign" appears in the neocon catalog of vestige verbiage in only one context:
"Resign yourself to the reality that they do whatever they damn well please so shut the hell up."
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Tim Grieve...
I am going to remember these words that you wrote:
"The good news for Iraq war architect Paul Wolfowitz: As the Washington Post reports, he'll get a chance to "argue for his job" before a World Bank committee investigating his decision to hook his girlfriend up with a high-paying job at the State Department.
Because one cannot really be informed about the details of Ms. Riza's career at the World Bank (she worked there long before Wolfowitz took his current job, and she was moved to a State Department job with the knowledge and understanding of everyone at the World Bank, following Wolfowitz's own request that the matter be handled, in the very first instance, by an independent board; and the raise(s) that she got as a World Bank employee assigned to the State Department were not determined at all in the first instance by Wolfowitz himself, and were in part reflective of the fact that she went over to State precisely in order to avoid any hint of nepotism at the World Bank and thereby interrupting her career progress at the Bank) and not think that Tim Grieve has engaged in some contemptible, willful lying in this particular regard.
I do hope that someday soon, in some public forum, Tim Grieve is called upon to defend the merits of his having described the actual situation as Wolfowitz "hook[ing] his girlfriend up with a high-paying job at the State Department."