hahahaha WOLFOWITZ nominated for President of World Bank!

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Mr. Bush praised Mr. Wolfowitz as "a man of good experience" who would make a strong World Bank president.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr. Wolfowitz's appointment comes just a week after Mr. Bush picked long-time United Nations skeptic John Bolton to be its new UN ambassador, confirming the administration's utter "contempt" for the international community, said Njoki Njoroge Njehu, director of the 50 Years Is Enough Network.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

It's sorta interesting watching the twisting and turning. There's this palpable confusion among right-types going "Yeah, we've got to show we're strong and independent! But how come we're always hated? Clearly people don't like freedom!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Issa people gonna die?

http://www.astrosurf.com/lombry/Documents/et-jar-jar.jpg

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

well, who else's surname begins with "wolf"? he seems the obvious choice.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i was reading how the head of the world bank is the US presnit's pick* and the head of the IMF is europe's pick. that's *bound* not to lead to accusations of colonialism...

*doesn't even need to be ratified by congress

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

RJW

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Other fun BushCo follies:

Ms Rice accidentally revealed the poll delay when she referred to "parliamentary elections that will take place this fall", apparently not aware the new date had yet to be made official.

When asked for clarification, Ms Rice said: "I hope I didn't break the story."

Mr Karzai then confirmed the elections would take place in September.

He said he had been informed of the decision by the head of Afghanistan's election commission.

"The preparations are going on and now they told us, the commission chairman, that the elections will be held in September," he said, according to the Associated Press news agency.

The delay, also blamed on the lack of an accurate census, had been rumoured for months.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

They showed a clip of Bush's Wolfie announcement on The Daily Show, and what Bush actually said in that quote is that Wolfowitz is "a man of good experiences."

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Lord, will it never end???

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

dont forget Karen Hughes as the USA goodtime ambassador to the Middle East. Whatever the fuck that is..

― Dude, are you a 15 year old asian chick? (jingleberries), Thursday, 17 March 2005 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i think the bush administration's decisions are made on the basis on confirming noam chomsky's theories of how the world runs

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 17 March 2005 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Wolfowitz Discusses World Bank Mission with Bono

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I admit I had to check to see if that was an Onion story or not.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's another for you Ned:

Wolfowitz: No Regime Change at World Bank

― Dude, are you a 15 year old asian chick? (jingleberries), Friday, 18 March 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

This is shitty news, as fucked-up as many of the World Bank policies may be, the Bank has a lot of influence in the poorest developing countries, and Wolfensohn at least was trying to steer it a bit (if not enough) away from its worst neoliberal days of structural adjustment. So if I had to pick between two evils, I'd rather have Wolfensohn stay.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 19 March 2005 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i guess i don't feel too bad about this! reasons, so far:

a. he's not an economist and his diplomatic experience is low, so maybe if he just says "let's help the poor," the regional or national-level managers (who, from what i understand from my very limited reading) are less bloodthirsty neolib and so may have a freer hand to do what is best (totally uninformed speculation here)

a2. of all the bushco ppl he's well known as the most idealistic, the one who ACTUALLY BELIEVES in making the world "better." (no photos of HIM shaking hands w saddam in '86, yknow?)

2. he's no longer in the DOD! (there is a story here, too, that i'd love to know!)

― f--gg (gcannon), Saturday, 19 March 2005 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

George Monbiot's take

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 06:59 (twenty-one years ago)

From the concluding paragraph:

But this surely illustrates the unacknowledged paradox in neocon thinking. They want to drag down the old, multilateral order and replace it with a new, US one. What they fail to understand is that the "multilateral" system is in fact a projection of US unilateralism, cleverly packaged to grant other nations just enough slack to prevent them from fighting it. Like their opponents, the neocons fail to understand how well Roosevelt and Truman stitched up the international order. [!]

― youn, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

where's the paradox exactly? the old order had the US dominating western europe, south america, the pacific rim, etc. the new order will have the US dominate central asia, eastern europe, more of the middle east, and needs to take up the slack in the pacific rim (europe is as supine as ever). truman and rossevelt didn't stitch things up *enough*.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)

If the US has huge trade and budget deficits, is it a good idea for currencies to be pegged to the dollar? (I'm trying to remember lessons on international currency markets from my high school economics class.) Maybe this is one reason why the second half of the above is questionable.

― youn, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

old "multilateral" order = two superpowers armed to the teeth, nervous stability, jockeying for spheres of influence
new "multilateral" order = one superpower, all previous bets off

monbiot is such a nitwit

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, the conclusion that: now Wolfowitz is in-charge we'll see what a stitch up it really is, is somewhat daft.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought his conclusion was that the old "multilateral" order was really for guaranteeing US hegemony and that Wolfowitz didn't seem to understand that, which I think is different from what you're saying. I don't know if the US will continue to dominate the new "multilateral" order, and I don't know what kind of timescale is involved in any shift in power. Factors that might contribute to the decline of US hegemony: the deficits, declining govt leadership and investment in R & D; the rise of states like China; different dynamics in international affairs due to terrorism, nuclear proliferation, etc. What about the EU? Will it always be in its best interest to support US policies? Maybe Monbiot is saying that the old guard should stick together.

― youn, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i read this thread and i was like "so erm.. who was nominated??"

and then i realised it didn't say "hahahaha ROFLOMWTFBYOB! nominated for President of World Bank!"

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

Yes, the conclusion that: now Wolfowitz is in-charge we'll see what a stitch up it really is, is somewhat daft.

-- Ed (dali), Tuesday, April 5, 2005 10:54 AM (2 years ago)

Ed OTM.

So... everyone in the board of directors says he has to go, except the US representatives. Can't wait for the final decision.

― StanM, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 07:26 (nineteen years ago)

so long fucker!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 17 May 2007 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

reading this thread title is like "hahahaha George Bush Jr Running for President!"

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 17 May 2007 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

haha right?

― deej, Thursday, 17 May 2007 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

HA HA bye-bye dickhead!

― kingfish, Thursday, 17 May 2007 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

All because he signed the Riza papers.

― StanM, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:07 (nineteen years ago)

reading this thread title is like "hahahaha George Bush Jr Running for President!"

hey at least his tenure was only a year and change, as opposed to eight.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

I kinda can't wait to see what job he's going to horribly fuck up next (hopefully something more suitable to his intellectual capacity, like, say, frycook).

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

the dream is over

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 18 May 2007 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

"GWB to nominate successor shortly"

Rumsfeld?

― StanM, Friday, 18 May 2007 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

Wouldn't Brownie do a heck of a job at the world bank?

― StanM, Friday, 18 May 2007 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

"He has damaged the institution and continues to damage it every day that he remains as its president. ... He has demeaned the bank, insulted the staff, diminished its clients and dragged this institution through the mud. He put his own interests before those of the institution. In making a statement of gratitude to Mr. Wolfowitz, the board has done the same." -- World Bank Group Staff Association

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 18 May 2007 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, seriously - what do you have to do to have your employers say "this guy was a cunt, and we are glad we are shot of him"?

― stevie, Friday, 18 May 2007 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

this sounds like a job for... John Bolton!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Funny, that's what I was thinking.

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

for one thing, none of that silly senate confirmation business

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Funny, that's what I was thinking

me too. but hey, what about Alberto Gonzalez?

― gabbneb, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

send Jenna

― kingfish, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

kingfish wins

― gabbneb, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

let's see, who does Dubya know that hates poor people and corruption as much as Wolfy, hmmmmmmm

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

are you kidding/insane? i heard w talk just yesterday about how wolfowitz cares about helping the poor.

― Frogman Henry, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

dude, remember these guys' mindset. You do not help the poor by coddling with them subsidies and handouts and welfare; you help them by starving off all funds, forcing them to become self-disciplined and pull themselves up by their bootstraps, like all successful americans do. If some of these people suffer(and/or die) along the way, that's most unfortunate; better they learn strong moral discipline than be coddled and not have to take responsibility for their actions(or lack thereof). They seriously, earnestly believe this.

Again, it's like with "freedom" and "liberty"; what these jackasses mean by those terms tends to be far different than what you or I do.

― kingfish, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

I don't doubt he DOES care for the poor (he was the closest thing to a liberal in the administration), but evidently he's just as comfortable with cronyism.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

he = Wolfy

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

by the way, what new evidence condemned Wolfowitz? I thought he told the Bank's panel about Riza in 2005 and they were cool with it. In the last two weeks it's gone from "Let's look into this" to "Alright, we don't like you REGARDLESS, so you gotta go."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

frankly I don't care - the guy's an incompetent asshole that shouldn't be in charge of anything and any excuse to get him out of office = a-okay with me.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=455673&in_page_id=1811

― gabbneb, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Those photos.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/04_03/blairdepartDM_228x210.jpg

"I KISS YOU!"

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

this sounds like a job for... John Bolton!

You were kidding but she probably isn't.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/0/0/7/8/858700_170x170.jpg

― daria-g, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha - Ned maybe they have an anti-Ned from the Corner who spies on ILM

TRUST NO ONE

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

shaha riza is kind of awesome. fight the power

i also find it kind of silly all the fretting about her salary by the news media. it's not THAT much money in dc. i'm sure that "working class guy from buffalo" tim russert is appalled despite his millions

― daria-g, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

ouch!

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/sideshow/7661446.html

― StanM, Thursday, 24 May 2007 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

oh sweet schadenfreude

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

O' mi-ee-ine.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 3 June 2007 06:51 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I've been meaning to do that for days.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 3 June 2007 06:52 (nineteen years ago)

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