So Wolfie is doing the World Bank job out of pity and humanity?!

[sleipnir]

So says he:

But as close associates revealed yesterday, Wolfowitz started thinking seriously about leaving two months ago, spurred by a January tour of the devastation in Southeast Asia caused by the tsunami. The scenes of death and destruction that he viewed in Indonesia and Sri Lanka played on Wolfowitz's long interest in Third World issues of poverty and peace, according to this account, and got him looking at what new career move he could make to help in this area.

"The catalyst was being asked to do the job -- it wasn't my decision," he said yesterday in an interview. But he called the tsunami trip "a big deal" that "may have crystallized" his views, and he referred to the visit in a written statement explaining his interest in the World Bank position.

"Nothing is more gratifying than being able to help people in need -- as I experienced once again when I witnessed the tsunami relief operations in Indonesia and Sri Lanka," the statement said. "It is also a critical part of making the world a better place for all of us."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41936-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_politics


Horrific, they are just lying out and out. They will genuflect to anyone to gain some measure of laugh.

[rigel99]

1. NO... My guess is Bush is losing on Raiding Soc. Security &

needs more money for his expensive , losing wars,

so he's getting Wolfie to raid a bank they think should go out of business anyway, cause we all know those third world countries deserve to rot in their 3rd world poverty...

no, it's pretty simple... the US economy is crashing, China calling in bank loans, investors investing heavily outside US, Europe / Russia / China buying weapons from each other.... no basically, Bushie is flat out broke...

and he needs to buy another beer.... 'hey wolfie....go get me some money from those poor people over there, we've already robbed all the poor ones here in America'....

[Algorem]

2. He couldn't hock up a loogie of humanity on the worst of bad hair days.

[applegrove]

3. He has four years to redo his image... or it will be landlocked time

in the USA for Wolfie & the wife. No point in travles to Europe when you may be tried as a War criminal.

Let us see. Does he hand out debt relief to Africa in a quid pro quo manner? They have all done the structural adjustment shit. So will the debt relief be for free. Or will it cost each nation something.

I heard Bush go on and on about bilateral treaties & aid. That does not bode well for Africa... that is a recipe to get back into debt. Would be interesting to know how much of the debt Africa shudders under was BILATERAL in nature.

[gumby]

4. The intimate revelations of a Compassionate Conservative

disguised as an Economic Hit Man.

Shame on the Washington Post. Shame.

[punpirate]

5. This is unadulterated...

... horseshit. If the EU approves him in the job, Wolfowitz will be Bush's trojan horse in the World Bank. Wolfowitz has been in government over twenty years total, and I can't remember him acting altruistically even once in that time--he's been persistently neo-conservative and single-minded about projecting US power around the world.

A different recollection of Wolfowitz and Indonesia:

http://www.firstofthemonth.org/9_11/9_11_shorrock_asian.html