Wolfowitz Said to Push for Deal to Quit »
Posted By Beau7890 1 year, 4 months ago in Newsfter six weeks of combating efforts to oust him as president of the World Bank, Paul D. Wolfowitz began Wednesday to negotiate the terms under which he would resign, in return for the dropping or softening of the charge that he had engaged in misconduct, bank officials said.
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alakazam1 year, 4 months ago
You wanna know what I really think?
I think screw Wolfowitz, fire his arse.
No graceful standown for him! He has abused the authority of his post!
Fire Him! Send him Packing!
If you think I am saying this because I am angry and think we need to send a message. You would be 100% correct!
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jordan111 year, 4 months ago
No graceful standown for him! He has abused the authority of his post!>>>>
I'm inclined to agree. It's comical he believes he has room for 'negotiation.' But whether they go along with giving in to him or not, there's no 'graceful standown' for him. He's a sleaze, and the whole world knows it. (well, the whole world that isn't CON anyway.)
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lfergie8121 year, 4 months ago
"It's comical he believes he has room for 'negotiation."
Sad to say but this has been the norm with CEO's in large companies. They have to pay them millions plus stock options to get them to leave even though they screwed up so bad that there was justification to fire them outright. He committed white collar robbery and has the audacity to ask for negotiations.
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jeffery11 year, 4 months ago
This isn't the way American business works. Look at the savings and loan debacle, Enron, HP, et al. Either the top officers are corrupt or ethically challenged or they want ransom for leaving the mess they made. The buck stops when someone is forced to quit passing it, and I mean forced because they don't feel compelled to hold themselves accountable because they are the elite and above accountability.
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deathray1 year, 4 months ago
I think you are right, alakazam, but it's not the culture of the Bank to be so forthright.
It's more likely that they'll give him a vote of no confidence first.
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HannibalBarca1 year, 4 months ago
Screw him he probably already stole more than his bonus
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ETproductions1 year, 4 months ago
As a chief architect of the perfection of the Iraq Invasion and Pacification plan, how can you possibly question the depth and quality of Wolfie's planning and vision. Why he's almost as perfect as his only remaining supporter, George Bush. Almost... Not quite, but almost.
I would add his promoted girlfriend to the list of his supporters, but now he's dumped on her claiming it's all her fault that this whole scandal came up.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/05/15/wolfow...
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Searchbeam1 year, 4 months ago
This guy got all the "Free Fringe Benefits" from his Libyan girlfriend, and when it became a matter of conflict of interest , showed her the door. You cannot blame her for getting angry! Any other woman would have crushed his ba**s!
This sleazeball wanted to have the "cheesecake" and eat it too! Well, he met his match!
By the way, did he discuss his relationship with a Muslim woman with his Rabbi? I think not!
Blaming her is only making this pigdropping stink even more like a skunk!
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texangelwings1 year, 4 months ago
Wonder what Wolfowitz has on others and who?
I wonder if he thinks that this is going to provide him with a clean slate? The tarnish is there to stay.
How soon will he begin his auto biography?
Thanks Beau, for some reason this remind me of the movie, The Godfather, the scene with the yellow satan sheets & the horse's head, the message.
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trnscndr1 year, 4 months ago
You guys are dead on. And if they give him anything other than the boot, there will be additional political blowback, that the RNC doesn't want to even think about.
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GregD1 year, 4 months ago
*sigh*
I'm not even sure why this kind of stuff doesn't even surprise me anymore. Apathetic? Probably. Between Enron, Haliburton, this, who can keep up? It's to the point that I think all of these idiots vacation in the same spots every year, just so they can meet and plan their next assinine endeavor. And because they talk "business", they get to write the trip off on their taxes.
Whatever...
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Macondo1 year, 4 months ago
"President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney declared their confidence in his abilities."
This is pathetic! One more example of the kind of people favored by Bush-Cheney.
Alberto Gonzales is an other one.
Corruption all the way to the top!
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Amazing11 year, 4 months ago
Fire his butt! Negotiations for a clean record? Give me a break. Throw the bum out. He doesn't care about his "clean" record thing. He cares about the bonus. I hope they send him packing and let him know in no uncertain terms what a jerk he is.
And where are the Neocons when you need 'em. It would be a great laugh to see how they would spin this crapola!
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rightfromwrong1 year, 4 months ago
just turf him out...he is just another parasite and a string puller of Bush
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quackpot1 year, 4 months ago
Wolfowitz needs to clear out his desk and leave TODAY. And he needs to carry a mop when leaving so that he can erase the trail of slime.
The Board Memebers are afraid that Bush will be able to pull U.S. $$ out of the Bank in retaliation. The Board members need to stand up for what is right. Bush has enough troubles without mucking with the bank for petty retaliation. Bush won't stand by Wolfowitz once Wolfowitz is gone from the scene.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 4 months ago
Obvious intentional violation of the World Bank Charter.
Where are those right wing hard cores who constantly bring up their continued outrage over The Clinton BJ?
I guess it's OK if you PAY someone with TAXPAYER money for the BJ.
That's just good ol' capitalism right?
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2sidestoeverything1 year, 4 months ago
Beau, good submit and I also enjoyed many of the post above.
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WallyPoP1 year, 4 months ago
Too much trouble to rate all your comments "bad". This is my first time on such a site. I can't believe the drivel. I don't know how you all find the time. Try thinking, instead.
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DrWatson1 year, 4 months ago
If you've ever read the book.."THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND" you may come to the conclusion that we need to fire them all at the World Bank.
Pure and simple....we've been duped all along by the true intentions of this institution. Rather than help poor nations, they actually encourage famine and evil dictators. Wolfowitz is no more than a Neo-Con right wing ideolog, a Bush crony whose theories are as whacky as the chucklehead we have in the White House.
It's a wonder how we aren't all on the roadside living in cardboard boxes.
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vor1 year, 4 months ago
see
newamericancentury.org
The true neo-con roster:
Elliott Abrams
Richard L. Armitage
Gary Bauer
William J. Bennett
John Bolton
Jeb Bush
Frank Carlucci
Dick Cheney
Eliot A. Cohen
Midge Decter
Paula Dobriansky
Steve Forbes
Aaron Friedberg
Francis Fukuyama
Frank Gaffney
Fred C. Ikle
Donald Kagan
Zalmay Khalilzad
William Kristol
I. Lewis Libby
Richard Perle
Norman Podhoretz
Dan Quayle
Peter W. Rodman
Stephen P. Rosen
Henry S. Rowen
Donald Rumsfeld
Vin Weber
George Weigel
Paul Wolfowitz
Some familiar names, some not so familiar. Note particularly that GW Bush is not on this list but there is Jeb. GW is a neo-con by proxy. Wolfie, Cheney, Rummy, they are all there, this is where the Iraq invasion idea was hatched. Yet they claim there were no plans for such an attack prior to 9/11. It especially cracks me up when Kristol appears on FoxNews as an "impartial observer" (LOL).
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WCFIELDS1 year, 4 months ago
"Wolf" and his "far-out chick" are said to be fighting over the large topped Mahogany desk in his office. Apparently this is where their relationship began.
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Gatsby1 year, 4 months ago
Why deal with this a**hole. Fire his ass now. No pension, no severence pay. OUT THE DOOR. He's a crook. What part of dishonest do they not understand?
I'm just f***ing fed up with those greedy slime-balls feathering their nest through tactics that reek graft and corruption.
Bush wouldn't recognize an honest deal if he stumbled over one.
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Worldview1 year, 4 months ago
"I regret that it's come to this," Bush said. "All I can tell you is Paul Wolfowitz has an interest in what's best for the bank," he added, in a hint that was no longer willing to expend political capital to keep Wolfowitz in the job.
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Searchbeam1 year, 4 months ago
Beau,
I think the connection becomes obvious if, for a moment, you consider the possibility of him being an undercover operative for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence Agency. All of his policies and actions, including the push for Iraqi war have benefited the state of Israel. The only fly in the ointment is his relationship with his girlfriend, who happens to be a Libyan of Islamic faith.
By the way, it is not just ethical lapses, we are also talking about his moral lapses!
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Beau78901 year, 4 months ago
I make a distinction between Judaism and the policies of the Israeli government. Not to do so is to make the same generalizations some people make about all Muslims or all Christians.
And there is that fly, kind of a hard one to avoid, in your argument. It's not as though Wolfowitz--in this capacity as Mossad operative--is wooing some powerful or influential Libyan Muslim. In fact, for all we know, she could be a spy for Libya, getting all sorts of sensitive information at both the World Bank and the State Department.
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hamy1 year, 4 months ago
One of Bush's many crimes would be allowing this sorry sack of a man to get any bonus for his actions.
Why do we want to spare him any further embarrassment? I for one would be perfectly happy standing a few feet away from him in a park and screaming with laughter and pointing at him. He should be tarred and feathered along with Bush and the rest of his cronies.
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not2needy1 year, 4 months ago
That man has a lot of nerve.
Let's see! I will resign if you drop the charges, but if the charges aren't dropped i will stay!! Where is the logic in that? He as much as admitted his guilt when he asked for softening of the charges.
Again, i never cease to be amazed.
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