Wolfowitz's bit of Crumpet ( Archived) (45)

The man who architected the Neocon policy of invading Iraq is now accused of serious impropriety. Currently the President of the World Bank (Lord help us) he hired his paramour to a $193,000.00 a year tax free job. He didn't see the conflict of interest in this. Come to think of it there are many things that Wolfowitz doesn't see or chose to ignore.

I think a resignation may be in the offing. Perhaps a twin offering, poor old Alberto from AG's office and Wolfie from the World Bank.

Yes. But I thought he should have been jailed after I saw him licking his comb before he ran it through his hair in Far. 9/11.

What a toolbox!

That's just gross!

Shultz also introduced Governor George W. Bush to Condoleezza Rice, who in turn introduced Paul Wolfowitz to Governor Bush back in 1999. Shultz of course knew at the time that Wolfie and Perle and their neo-con Cabal were planning a war in Iraq, and we know nice, little "doable" wars (Wolfie's word), are meat and potatoes for the military-industrial complex. Instead of squeezing nickels and dimes out of the taxpayers to persuade Ghana to build a steel mill it doesn't need and can't run, even little wars run into the billions. And everyone gets into the act. The arms makers who produce airplanes, tanks, guns, jeeps and humvees get to blow up a country (like Iraq) and Bechtel and Halliburton come in right behind to rebuild it. In announcing the Wolfowitz appointment today, President Bush said the World Bank is a big organization and Wolfowitz has experience running a big organization, the Pentagon!! As far as the military-industrial complex is concerned, Wolfowitz did a FANTASTIC job. He was only expected to plan for a $30 billion war and he screwed up so badly that it is now a $200 billion war, and counting. Anyone who can screw up that badly deserves a promotion, to the World Bank.

Absolutely spot on. Wolfie told us that we would be welcomed with open arms in Baghdad and the reconstruction would be financed by Iraqi oil money. For starting a war that's fast becoming the worst disaster in our history what's his reward? A cushy job at the World Bank for him and his mistress.

There where of course be complaints from various global diplomats about the obvious incompetence of Wolfowitz, just as there were puzzled head-scratchings around the world about the incompetence of Condi Rice as Secretary of State or John Bolton as UN Ambassador. But money talks in all the places where the directors of the World Bank live, and they will be advised to clam up by the local military-industrial money machines. Perle will also have his pals at The Weekly Standard and Fox News speculate that when Condi is President, Wolfie will be her veep (which is how it happened we`ve seen talk of Condi for President in 2008).

I would not anymore be surprised if terror attacks will increase when getting near the date of elections.. Terrorism is such a great tool for working further on fear and manipulation of voters that it will be used on Iran or others.. If there is no enemy - create one.. its historic somehow

I think it is SOO WRONG that these highly educated types get these high profile and lucrative jobs and when they screw up or get caught breaking laws they only get punished withthe fact that they canot work at that one place..... it sucks they should treat them like mass rapists because in a sense they are raping people of theu=ir hard earned cash and investments and lives and countries.

I would like to quote: Paul Craig Roberts
who held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University and was Senior Research Fellow in the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

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The greatest problem confronted by marketers of anti-terrorist products is the shortage of terrorist attacks. The only terrorist events Americans have experienced are the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. As for 9/11, we still don't have a good explanation of how so much security failed in one morning.

To prime the market for anti-terrorism products, the Bush administration used 9/11 to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. The Bush administration has been attempting to occupy both countries for several years at a cost to taxpayers estimated at 1,000 billion dollars.

The main result of the military action has been to stir up resentment among Muslims in the hopes that the resentment will find expression in terrorist acts in the US. We have been made less safe in order that entrepreneurs can make big bucks protecting us with new security products. It would have been much better just to give the 1,000 billion dollars to the security firms and not invaded the two countries.

Keep that in mind when you are being monitored in your airliner seat and are blinking too much because you still wear the old hard contact lenses or are suffering from allergies. Excessive blinking is a telltale sign of stress and means that the blinker is about to commit a terrorist act. When you are arrested don't bother arguing with the foolproof Onboard Threat Detection System. Just be thankful that your senators and representative received enough campaign donations from security firms to be concerned with your security.