Will Europe defeat the Wolfowitz nomination?

[quaoar]

God, I hope so.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/33029996-965b-11d9-8fcc-00000e2511c8.html

Surprise, and in some quarters dismay, was a common response in the World Bank's other large shareholder countries to Paul Wolfowitz's nomination.

The lack of consultation before the announcement meant that European governments - who collectively hold about 30 per cent of the votes on the bank's executive board to the US's 17 per cent - were slow to react. "There are going to be a lot of very unhappy people, but they may be as upset about the process as about the person," said one European official. "They were supposed to consult us and there was no consultation."

< snip >

Many development campaigners were in no doubt. "We consider the choice of Wolfowitz utterly inappropriate to lead such a key institution," said Jeff Powell, co-ordinator of the Bretton Woods Project, a watchdog non-governmental organisation. "This appointment will only serve to confirm suspicions that the World Bank is a tool of US foreign policy."

Clare Short, who resigned as the British government's development secretary over the Iraq war, said the Europeans should prevent the appointment, just as the US blocked the first European choice for managing director of the International Monetary Fund, the German finance secretary Caio Koch-Weser.

[Art_from_Ark]

1. I wonder what the 2nd largest single shareholder, Japan, thinks

Japan has a 7.87% interest

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/0,,contentMDK:20040580~menuPK:34588~pagePK:51123644~piPK:329829~theSitePK:29708,00.html

[aneerkoinos]

4. Japan

Japan is occupied and run by the occupying forces, so Koizumi will do whatever his bosses tell him to do.

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Go get 'im, Clare Short

Wolfowitz should be blocked and it should be made clear that his role in planning the invasion of Iraq is the reason.

[TrustingDog]

18. he doesn't even know how to comb his hair in a civilised manner...

how can he be World Bank material?

feh.
But he'll get in. The plan is set. We're all fucked from every direction and in every oriface we or our children own.

[Frederik]

3. They should

and they may. Europe has been assertive lately. But it would be the first time that has happened. Interesting that they weren't even consulted, as is the norm. The signal couldn't have been clearer, it's a "fuck you, you're irrelevant".

[indepat]

5. Only the world would win should Europe take umbrage with Wolfowitz

[Ernest T Bass]

6. God I hope not

I despise Wolfowitz. But, I despise even more foreign countries telling us how to run our house. Screw that noise.

[rockedthevoteinMA]

8. Excuse me... but the WORLD bank is THE WORLD...

it's not our house. :crazy:

[aneerkoinos]

9. LOL

Your house? Come on then, despise me all you can!

I don't despise capitalism and Murica, I just laugh at the pitifull loosers!!!

[bunkerbuster1]

15. the Loosers and the Morans, I laugh at.

'specially the pitiful ones.

[sandnsea]

10. It's not our house

You sound like a teen-ager telling mommy she doesn't need anybody telling her what to do. And slamming doors and running away and being independent.

Only to find herself all alone in an alley surrounded by thugs.

Kind of like where the US is right now. Alone. With too many countries not particularly caring whether terrorists blow the shit out of us or not.

[Ernest T Bass]

11. Oh, I see

Europe is the mommy right? They know better right? LOL!

[quaoar]

12. On this issue

Yes, Europe is right.

[rockedthevoteinMA]

14. Um... well in the sense of age and intelligence, Europe would be

considered the mommy.

[bunkerbuster1]

16. You want some Freedom Fries with that?

[sandnsea]

19. Mothers always do

Ask anybody. Baseball, apple pie and MOM.

[aneerkoinos]

7. I love Wolfie and Bush

This is a total win-win situation. Either Euros with others shall totally humiliate Gringolandia and not accept their candidate, or Wolfie gets the job and totally fucks up World Bank. What a wonderfull day, we just can't loose!!!

[amjucsc]

13. Perhaps they'll do it as a tit for tat...

Since the head of the IMF is traditionally a European, and Bush blocked the first choice of the Europeans, they may hopefully return the favor.

[hippiechick]

17. The world is collective bargaining to stop the Cabal.

First Venezuela and it's oil exportation 'fuck you' to Bush, then Iran calling our bluff with the nuke development proposal, and now Europe telling us we can't pimp the World Bank.

It's going to literally take a world effort to stop these morons.

Tthe one campaign promise Bush keeps -- he HAS been a uniter. The rest of the world is uniting to stop his stupid ass.

I love it.

[applegrove]

20. Perhaps this is just an attempt to get Europe to destroy UN protocol.

I mean the only person less suitable than Wolfowitz would be Rumsfield. A bunch of cold hearted snakes who purposely dismantle 100 years of slow multilateral institution building by Europe. I would not be surprised if the end game is to hurt the cohesiveness of non-US transnational bodies - one way or another.

How do you say massive *itch-slap in French? Sociopaths will try and force you to treat them as 'accepted' when you want nothing to do with them. It is how they 'hide' their actions and quash feelings of fear & hatred (by forcing civility and making sure it is witnessed). They make you deal with them as an attempt to re-integrate with the people they just destroyed & lied to.

I doubt that the French will ever recover from the scapegoating they received at the hands of Bush. Their "product" has been forever slurred by the neocons' rush to war. But Wolfowitz will visually force the French to deal with him and be seen to be dealing with him. This erases the idea that:EUROPE HATES BUSH & THE NEOCONS from the minds of stupid Americans you get all their information from compromised sources. If will make things look like they are normal... when they are not normal at all.

***holes!