Thread: An Old Face Resurfaces

An Old Face Resurfaces

The Bush administration has offered the former World Bank president a new public service position.

Don't ever say the Bush administration doesn't take care of its own. Nearly three years after Paul Wolfowitz resigned as deputy Defense secretary and six months after his stormy departure as president of the World Bank—amid allegations that he improperly awarded a raise to his girlfriend—he's in line to return to public service. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has offered Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Iraq War, a position as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board, a prestigious State Department panel, according to two department sources who declined to be identified discussing personnel matters. The 18-member panel, which has access to highly classified intelligence, advises Rice on disarmament, nuclear proliferation, WMD issues and other matters. "We think he is well suited and will do an excellent job," said one senior official.

Wolfowitz, now a visiting scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, will replace former senator Fred Thompson, who quit over the summer to run for president. Although officials declined to say how Rice came to choose him, Wolfowitz began his government career in the 1970s in the State Department as an arms-control expert; he forged a relationship with Rice during the 2000 presidential campaign, when they both served as top foreign-policy advisers to the then candidate Bush. But his selection has raised more than a few eyebrows within State because he'll be providing advice on some of the same issues that critics say the administration got spectacularly wrong when Wolfowitz was pushing the case for the Iraq War at the Pentagon. (One of the department sources called the appointment "amazing.") At least Wolfowitz, who did not return calls seeking comment, will have like-minded company: other panel members include Robert Joseph, the former National Security Council official in charge of Iraq WMD intelligence, and ex-CIA director James Woolsey, both strong allies during the Iraq debate.

Yeah. Who says crime doesn't pay. The guy is a pathological liar and war monger. His lies and manipulations are the direct cause of our ill conceived adventure into Iraq. He's a mirror of Cheney. If you're Bush, what's not to love.

Bert predicts liberal insanity in the comming moments...

If Wolfowitz was a Democrat, Green, Libertarian, or Sesame Street Character, then I'd be equally vitriolic. He's proved himself an incompetent lickspittle who's made a mockery of the institutions through which he's been integrally involved. This isn't about "fair and balanced," this man was unfit for his positions.

Wow - apparantly you have to cut off his head, dig out his black shriveled heart and stuff garlic in his ass to make this guy stay dead.

He's like Jason or Freddy... everytime they bury his sad ass he finds a way to come back good as new.

But he fit his girlfriend's positions.


HIY-YO! Wacka wacka wacka!

I got a million of 'em.

Originally Posted by Bert Spivey

Bert predicts liberal insanity in the comming moments...

A self-fulfilling prophesy coming from you..

I didn't know that Wolfowitz had been convicted of anything, I hadn't even heard of an indictment.

President of the World Bank Paul Wolfowitz enters a mosque in Turkey:

Originally Posted by Migi e!

I didn't know that Wolfowitz had been convicted of anything, I hadn't even heard of an indictment.

He was convicted by the left not the Judicial branch