I'm Shocked! Wolfowitz Returns Home To Neoconservative Think Tank AEI

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/29/wolfowitz-aei/

Wolfowitz Returns Home To Neoconservative Think Tank AEI

Former World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz — who resigned last month after being embroiled in a corruption scandal at the World Bank — announced that he has found a comfortable landing pad from which to continue to disseminate his right-wing ideology:

Paul Wolfowitz vowed to continue in political life after he steps down as president of the World Bank this weekend following an internal revolt. … He said he would be joining the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank in Washington, as a visiting scholar, which would allow him to continue influencing public policy.

Prior to his recent government service, Wolfowitz served as a member of AEI’s Council of Academic Advisors.

Before the Iraq war, AEI helped spawn the administration’s regime change plans. Several Iraq war architects — such as Richard Perle, Dick Cheney, John Bolton, and Doug Feith — previously worked at AEI before their service in the administration. In February 2003, President Bush delivered a major policy speech to AEI, mapping out his war plan, “thanking them for their service” and support for the invasion.

To this day, AEI “has the President’s ear” on national security issues. Bush’s escalation plan is largely based on a November 2006 paper by AEI analyst Frederick Kagan, who argued that the U.S. should “re-enter in large numbers.”

AEI offered a rigorous defense of Wolfowitz, despite his corrupt practices at the Bank. Said one AEI scholar: “The coordinated effort to harm him has revealed to polite society in Washington that something at the World Bank is seriously wrong.” Another placed the blame on Bank employees, slandering them as “militant staff.”

With his return to AEI, Wolfowitz said he continues to hold out hope of one day “rejoining the government.”

[Vincardog]

1. How often do these mind fuckers have to be proven wrong before they are ignored?

I know only after their money dries up and they are convicted and imprisoned.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. "rejoining the government."

I hope it's in a war crimes trial for his life!

[cboy4]

3. He's probably furious we've haven't launched a nuclear attack

against Iran yet.

[KamaAina]

4. How convenient. Wolfowitz is also a major PNACer

and don'tcha know, PNAC is housed in the same DC office building as AEI! :tinfoilhat:

http://www.aei.org/about/filter.,contentID.20038142214500071/default.asp

The American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036

[paparush]

6. Saves on stationary...

[Solly Mack]

5. smirk

lolololol

[DemGa]

7. Conservatives cannot be shamed

and they never go away. No matter how soundly trounced they may appear one day, they're back the very next day as if nothing at all occurred. This is what makes them so dangerous.

[poverlay]

8. They've got to prepare for Jeb. This country isn't entirely ground into a hopeless pulp yet...

Sorry to sound so pessimistic.
Prepare for the worst...

[whistle]

9. No surprise here, he's back for reprogramming

[Monk06]

10. The neo con equivalent of moving back into your Mom's basement. Loooser.

[Demeter]

11. Debasing the Word "Scholar" Once Again

There ain't any such thing as a right-wing scholar--unless it's the school for cons.