Wolfowitz in firing line as World Bank faces mass exodus

[sabra]

http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/wolfowitz-in-firing-line-as-world-bank-faces-mass-exodus/2006/12/12/1165685680622.html

Wolfowitz in firing line as World Bank faces mass exodus

WORLD Bank president Paul Wolfowitz faces mounting criticism from directors of the international lending organisation who say he relies on political advisers with little expertise in development while driving away seasoned managers.

Half of the bank's 29 highest-level executives have left since Mr Wolfowitz, the former US deputy defence secretary and an architect of President George Bush's invasion of Iraq, took office in June last year. Among them is Christiaan Poortman, vice-president for the Middle East and a 30-year veteran, who left in September after resisting pressure to speed up lending and adding staff in Iraq.

"It was very sad to see someone of Mr Poortman's calibre leaving," Eckhard Deutscher, one of 24 executive directors who oversee the management of the lender, said. "The bank needs to be very careful not to lose too much of its human capital."

The exodus is damaging the poverty-fighting institution, which provided $US23.6 billion ($A30 billion) last year for projects such as schools and clinics, say directors and observers.

Three directors, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they were concerned governments might be less willing to contribute because of unhappiness with Mr Wolfowitz.

[acmavm]

1. Did anyone really ever believe that Wolfie should have been

made head of the World Bank? Anyone with tracable brainwave patterns, that is.

[exlrrp]

4. Heckuva Job, Wolfie!!!

Has this clown EVER accomplished anything successful? Surprised he didn't get the Medal Of Freedom yet

[alfredo]

21. destruction and chaos is the goal of bush, wolfowitz, and the

other neocons. Destruction and chaos is desirable to the neocons. It opens opportunities to the exploiter.

[Tight_rope]

28. LMBAO...Not Anyone with tracable brainwave patterns...thats for sure!

[No Exit]

43. Is Wolfowitz's Arab girlfriend, Shaha Ali Riza, still working for the World Bank?

Oh--no, wait. That's right. She went to the State Department to work with Cheney's daughter Elizabeth (who no doubt got her position completely on personal merit and achievement).

http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:zKWYNTMGi7cJ:www.villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/000887.php+Wolfowitz+girlfriend&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2

[ms liberty]

2. What a surprise...

NOT. Everything these people touch turns to untreated sewage.

[struggle4progress]

46. It's not an accident: this is exactly what W'witz was sent to accomplish

[ixion]

3. another catastrophic success for PNAC,

much to the chagrin of the rest of the world. :-(

[truthisfreedom]

10. Why do you think they call it "Project for a New American Catastrophe"?

"We're just an accident waiting to happen!"-bushco

[VegasWolf]

5. Yet Another Fantastic Bush Fuckup! Now the World Bank! This country will

never recover from the Bush family ineptitude!!!!

[Frustratedlady]

6. George just doesn't have much luck with his buddies, does he?

Look at the caliber of people he's appointed to positions. Their greatest asset is incompetence. Must be a case of surrounding yourself with similar intellect so as not to diminish the appearance of your own. Surely isn't a case of dumbing down each other...or is it?

[oasis]

7. Hand over the job to Condi and let her put the finishing touches on the screwup.(n/t)

[endarkenment]

8. What can we put him in charge of to fuck up next?

hairspit has had quite the career

[Cocoa]

26. how about NASA

he could fuck that up spectacularly.

[0007]

9. .....and the United States wonder with awe why the world hates us.

Get Karen Hughes out there immediately to pump up our image.

[SutaUvaca]

11. Typical. Just fuckin' typical.

Another of Pimpster's high horse incompetents ruining yet another organization and it's serious work.
Non experts with political or religious agendas they just gotta play with on the world stage.
To hell with the rest of the world.
With any justice in the universe Wolfie will get caught up in war crime charges with a lot of the other criminals.

[Rex]

12. 43's group - the worst and most inept, cowardly and wrong about everything.

I had no idea such a small group of morans could screw up on such a massive scale. The sick bastards one and ALL need to visit the Hague for their day in court.

[TheBaldyMan]

13. I'm not surprised, Wolfie is the financial genius that claimed ...

that the Iraq war would pay for itself within a few months. His reward for this piece of incompetence? Chair of the World Bank, setting an arch-neocon loose at the top of an organisation like this is letting the fox loose among the chickens. The World Bank had a reputation for being conservative anyway, Wolfie has made things even worse for the poorest nations.

[tanyev]

14. Well, duh. Loyalty trumps competence. GOP SOP.

[partylessinOhio]

15. Well, thank God there are some truth-tellers out there that are exposing

Wolfowitz's incompetence. Yahoo!

[hunter]

16. Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz... If only they were fantasy villians...

...and the death star they built was only a movie.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/iraque/030411_wolfowitzxcg.shtml

Instead we must live in their horrible reality. How many have suffered and died? How long will this continue?

[Miss Chybil]

17. Humph! Imagine that... nt

[HughBeaumont]

18. The Bewsh Adminstration: Not ONE right thing done in six years.

The worst Reign of Error ever. Only the Reagan years sucked as bad.

[w4rma]

19. Good. I hope Wolfowitz runs that whole organization down the drain. It creates poverty. It doesn't

fight it.

[oblivious]

31. Yes, I noticed that phrase "poverty-fighting institution". Hilarious.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2647658#2647732

[Roland99]

20. Oh, FFS! They were WARNED! Jesus Christ! What did they expect?!?!?

[applegrove]

22. Likely the whole reason he is there. Just like Bolton and all WH policies.

They are about undoing government and any organization that works like FEMA..needs a quick exodous of qualified managers to get it to the point where the WH could argue... "hell private business could do a better job of this".

[opihimoimoi]

23. The Results of the Comb Licker is hardly suprising....He is a CRONY

and hardly qualied..for the job....get him outta there....

[Tellurian]

42. hahaha! That image is forever embedded

of Wolf licking his comb then running it hap-hazardly through his filthy hair..

:puke:

[opihimoimoi]

49. Traits of a Slithern of the Pub Kind....EWWWwwwwwww

[TomInTib]

24. Getting that Medal of Freedom is hard work1 nt

[RedEarth]

25. What else is new......... these people screw up everything they touch

[screenplaya]

27. Let's make him the next Iraqi ambassador.

[Tight_rope]

29. We should come to expect nothing but Major Fuck-ups from anyone

associatef with the Bush cartel.

[Nothing Without Hope]

30. Parallels with Bolton and the project to subvert/disembowel the UN

Also parallels with the subversion/disembowelment of FEMA under the GOP. In fact, parallels with anything where the neocons poke into an organization affecting their long-range plans. It isn't subtle.

Did anyone ever doubt that Wolfowitz would do this?

And now we will have Gates, of Iran/Contra/Bush crime fame to replace Rumsfeld, and he isn't even seriously challenged.

[Chimichurri]

32. It never ends. They are a virus. Can he be replaced?

He's one of the "crazies" and has no business handling such delicate affairs.

[wordpix]

33. look who's replacing the outgoing experts: bushCo ops

snip: New faces include counsellor to the president Robin Cleveland, who as associate director of the White House Office of Management and Budget helped secure congressional funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. :puke:

Kevin Kellems, a former spokesman for Vice-President Dick Cheney, was named director of external strategy. Suzanne Rich Folsom, who joined in 2003 and is the bank's chief corruption fighter, is married to George Folsom, who was principal deputy director of the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office and president of the International Republican Institute. :mad:

Mr Wolfowitz, 62, "has placed considerably more trust in a small group of outsiders from the Republican Party than in the seasoned experts in the bank", said Alison Cave, head of the World Bank staff association. :puke:

[thingfisher]

34. The exodus is damaging the poverty-fighting institution,

which provided $US23.6 billion ($A30 billion) last year for projects such as schools and clinics, say directors and observers.

Yeah right , the World Bank - a poverty- fighting institution!

[Critters2]

35. Who the fuck thought this was a good idea in the first place?! nt

[superconnected]

39. Well, he looks like a chimp and he usually poses with a US Flag

behind him.

[Critters2]

41. Oh, that asshole. Why am I not surprised? nt

[IndianaGreen]

36. World Bank is a dumping ground for American war criminals

Bob McNamara was first, now we have the architect of the war in Iraq.

[zreosumgame]

37. poverty-fighting? LOL hardly, it CAUSES poverty

[superconnected]

38. Gee they finally noticed he's incompent

It shocked me when he was put in that position. Glad they're booting him out for the right reason.

[spanone]

40. What took Wolfowitz so long to stink up the World Bank?

I'd wager there's criminal activity going on there too.

[PADemD]

44. Will Wolfowitz be replaced when the next president takes office?

[bvar22]

45. Aww. Nobody likes Wolfie.

Ewwwwww!


Hey Paul, you really gotta work on the hygene thing.....no..really

[ckramer]

47. Why did these idiots hire him in the first place?

Hahaha!

[IndianaGreen]

48. The US controls who runs the World Bank

and we had other war criminals there, such as Bob McNamara.