The Return of Paul Wolfowitz

[LoungeMachine]

Rice plans to name Wolfowitz to advisory panel
Mon Dec 3, 2007 7

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Paul Wolfowitz, forced to resign from the World Bank because of his role in obtaining a high-paying promotion for his companion, is slated to chair a U.S. State Department advisory panel on arms control, a U.S. official said on Monday.

The official, who spoke on condition that he not be named because of the appointment has not yet been made public, said U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice planned to name the former deputy defense secretary and an architect of the Iraq war to chair the International Security Advisory Board.

The board gives the State Department independent advice on arms control, disarmament, international security and other matters and its members include two former directors of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

Wolfowitz was forced to resign as president of the World Bank this year after a bank panel found he broke several bank rules by involving himself in the promotion of his companion Shaha Riza, a Middle East expert at the bank.

The controversy sparked outrage among some of the bank's 10,000 employees and prompted senior staff to write to the board complaining that the leadership crisis had undermined their work, especially in fighting corruption.

The State Department had no immediate comment on the plan to name Wolfowitz to the board, which was reported earlier by Newsweek.com. Wolfowitz was not immediately available for comment.

(Reporting by Arshad Mohammed, additional reporting by Lesley Wroughton, editing by Eric Walsh)


http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0344774120071204

[LoungeMachine]

Just when you thought this administration couldn't get any more ridiculous....

:rolleyes:

[knuckleboner]

no, i pretty much assume they can ALWAYS get more ridiculous...

[LoungeMachine]

Well, I was about to pay off our bet early after the latest NIE....

But they could be bringing in Paul for only one reason.... ;)

If anyone can cook the books in favor of WMD....

:gulp:

[knuckleboner]

heh heh. true. i'll hold off on any pre-emptive boasts for a while...

[LoungeMachine]

No wonder Cheney had been hanging on to this for months....

:gulp:

[Guitar Shark]

Sigh... more than a year to go before January 2009...

[FORD]

Does anyone ever REALLY get fired from the BCE??

[LoungeMachine]

When's Rumsfeld coming back?

[Guitar Shark]

Hey Kip, were you able to make the VH show at the Key?

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by Guitar Shark
Hey Kip, were you able to make the VH show at the Key?

Nope.

Flew to vegas for a wedding Sunday.

Didnt get back until late monday night.

Patrick McDonald's review notwithstanding, I've read it was a pretty good show.

conmee with coke and ho's no less. :D

:gulp:

[LoungeMachine]

Eliot Abrams
John Negropnte
John Poindexter

Chimpy does love to recycle criminals....

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by FORD
Does anyone ever REALLY get fired from the BCE??

If you mean the Bush admin, only when they tell the truth or show conscience...

[Nickdfresh]

Or if they have a nasty habit of upstaging the pResident by being smart and competent...

[Nitro Express]

He was a key member in the Bilderberg Group. The global elite love the World Bank and International Money Fund because they go into third world countries offering loans and then when the poor country defaults on the loan, the lender takes the country natural resources as payment.

The IMF and WB are nothing more than land and resource grab gimmicks. Some of the loans run 43% interest eventually while the money making raw resources make money for the global elite and the country wallows in debt.

Nice scam huh?

[hideyoursheep]

Originally posted by Nitro Express
He was a key member in the Bilderberg Group. The global elite love the World Bank and International Money Fund because they go into third world countries offering loans and then when the poor country defaults on the loan, the lender takes the country natural resources as payment.
Nice scam huh?


"You got no business? Fuck you, pay me. You had a fire? Fuck you, pay me. The place got hit by lightning and World War Three started? Fuck you, pay me.Then, when there's nothing left to take, you bust the joint out-you light a match."
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k180/TattooedGizmo/nuclearblast.jpg
"That's the way it is with a wiseguy partner. He gets his money no matter what."
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v697/kmoo27/goodfellas.jpg
:mad:

[knuckleboner]

* Paul Wolfowitz and Shaha Riza having a low-key date night Friday at the Dupont Circle Five Guys. Sat in the back, munched on free peanuts and ate burgers with plastic knives and forks.

washingtonpost (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/10/AR2007121000006.html)

burgers with forks and knives?...;)

[FORD]

Originally posted by knuckleboner
* Paul Wolfowitz and Shaha Riza having a low-key date night Friday at the Dupont Circle Five Guys. Sat in the back, munched on free peanuts and ate burgers with plastic knives and forks.

washingtonpost (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/10/AR2007121000006.html)

burgers with forks and knives?...;)

If you think that's weird, ask him how he keeps his hair in place.......

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[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by knuckleboner
* Paul Wolfowitz and Shaha Riza having a low-key date night Friday at the Dupont Circle Five Guys. Sat in the back, munched on free peanuts and ate burgers with plastic knives and forks.

washingtonpost (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/10/AR2007121000006.html)

burgers with forks and knives?...;)

Ha! You've a Five Guys in Fairfax...

Some damn good burgers. But Jesus, I can feel my blood pressure and cholesterol levels rise as I eat that stuff...

It's usually has a follow up meal from the Giant salad bar...:D

[knuckleboner]

yeah, i've definitely partaken of that 5 guys on a few occasions. never with a member of the bush administration, i'm afraid.

but...way back in the day when my after school job was at crown books, i DID check out john sununu. (he paid with traveller's cheques if i remember...)

[FORD]

Originally posted by knuckleboner


but...way back in the day when my after school job was at crown books, i DID check out john sununu. (he paid with traveller's cheques if i remember...)

So what was he reading?

[knuckleboner]

wish i could remember. this was probably 1991. nothing that struck me as odd at the time.

but he did pay with traveller's cheques, which required us to check ID. so i kinda made a joke about the last name and then actually paid attention to the customer and was like, "oh...you ARE gov. sununu..."

[Guitar Shark]

Originally posted by knuckleboner
* Paul Wolfowitz and Shaha Riza having a low-key date night Friday at the Dupont Circle Five Guys. Sat in the back, munched on free peanuts and ate burgers with plastic knives and forks.

washingtonpost (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/10/AR2007121000006.html)

burgers with forks and knives?...;)

LOL... took me a little while to find that blurb under the Gilbert Arenas story... for a minute I thought I'd been whisked away to the Fantasy NBA thread ;)

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by knuckleboner


but...way back in the day ..... i DID check out john sununu.

Did he catch you checking him out? :D

[knuckleboner]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
Did he catch you checking him out? :D

dude, he was a republican and i was a high school aged boy; it made his day...;)




and GS, i could definitely start an entire thread on arenas. but i'll probably wait until he gets back...