Posted on 03/18/2005 1:11:50 AM PST by Vetvoice
What's next, Donald Rumsfeld being shipped off to run UNICEF?
Someone in the White House's human resources department is having too much fun. First, John Bolton, a bona fide skeptic when it comes to things like diplomacy and treaties, was nominated to be the U.S. ambassador to that den of multilateralism, the United Nations. Now President Bush has nominated Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of Defense and one of the intellectual authors of the Iraq war, to lead the World Bank. And we thought we were being provocative when we nominated Bono, the rock star, for the same job. An American traditionally heads the bank (leadership of the International Monetary Fund goes to a European), and its board of directors is expected to ratify the White House's nomination. Even so, it's a leap to think of the administration's most notorious Iraq hawk working with Europe to lead the global struggle against poverty and hunger. There is a precedent, of course, of a high-profile U.S. official expiating his sins (at least what much of the world considered sins) at the World Bank. Robert McNamara, the onetime Ford Motor Co. executive and Democratic secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War, went on to lead the bank from 1968 to 1981. In fact, if Wolfowitz is to succeed at the bank, he will have to continue pulling the organization away from the approach it took in the McNamara years of indiscriminately lending money to corrupt governments in the name of development. The question is whether Wolfowitz — a former Yale political scientist and ambassador to Indonesia — has the diplomatic skill and credibility to preach to governments that need to clean up their economic act.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
John Bolton knows the UN for what it is, and that is the problem. Cockroaches hate light.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
"And we thought we were being provocative when we nominated Bono, the rock star, for the same job."
Didn't Boxer say that Sheets Byrd was the rock star? Perhaps Senator N-Word should get the job? Byrd is far more entertaining than Bono.
bttt
Actually Rumsfeld at the IAEA sounds just about right.
"...indiscriminately lending money to corrupt governments in the name of development..."
We need to look at our incredibly safe sossshhhhhh security funds to get an idea of how righteous our own government is.
This is why Bush needed an a**-kicker at the World Bank: "The World Bank oversees $20 billion of annual lending for development projects and has some 10,000 employees in 109 countries." 10,000 bureaucrats growing fat on our money. Wolfowits has his work cut out for him.
"The World Bank oversees $20 billion of annual lending for development projects and has some 10,000 employees in 109 countries."
Clinton. Definitely. That would cheer the LaLa Land Times up.
WaitPerson! A heaping platter of schadenfreude for of each presstitute at the LA Slimes table. Be sure a magnum of Liberal Whine accompanies that order.
I love how the Lefties question the credentials of anyone within the administration they want to trash. However, contradictions abound as they usually (in a negative light) rattle off of the positions of whom they attack.
Ya know,
I was always a staunch supporter of the administration...
But seeing how much fun they are having screwing with the Leftistas... between the appointments and the dropping of the Nuclear option in congress, and the continual defiance of the "Critics" and the oil drilling thats going to happen in Alaska...
It just makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. Seeing the "Progressives" progress further and further towards apoplexy and total breakdown... Makes me proud to be a neocon.
I wonder how long it will take them to realize they are more in need of an endangered speices act than the snail darters they cherish so much.
Keep going L.A. Times, shout it to the heavens, lolololololol!
Ya know,
I was always a staunch supporter of the administration...
But seeing how much fun they are having screwing with the Leftistas... between the appointments and the dropping of the Nuclear option in congress, and the continual defiance of the "Critics" and the oil drilling thats going to happen in Alaska...
It just makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. Seeing the "Progressives" progress further and further towards apoplexy and total breakdown... Makes me proud to be a neocon.
I wonder how long it will take them to realize they are more in need of an endangered speices act than the snail darters they cherish so much.
Keep going L.A. Times, shout it to the heavens, lolololololol!
By their own words, in lobbying against Wolfowitz the LA Times is lobbying that the World Bank should give money equally to corrupt governments. They're worried Wolfowitz will actually discriminate against these corrupt governments.
All the Dimwits do is object. They have NOT offered any alternatives except Clinton to the UN - never happen in 2006.
Do you want cheese with that whine?
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