Regarding Wolfowitz pick...What the hell happened between

[Career Prole]

here:

Wolfowitz said out World Bank race

"Mr. Wolfowitz is no longer part, I think, of the exercise, so I don't think there is any need to comment," Wolfensohn told reporters after meeting European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in Brussels.

He said his successor should be someone who was passionate about fighting poverty and promoting human development, not just a good manager.

Asked whether Wolfowitz met the criteria, he joked: "I submitted the name of my son and I think they got it mixed it up."

and here:

Wolfowitz tapped for World Bank

President Bush said Wednesday that Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is his choice to be president of the World Bank.

President Bush outlined the reasons he chose Wolfowitz in a news conference Wednesday, calling him "a man of good experience."

"He helped manage a large organization," said Bush "He's a skilled diplomat. Worked at the State Department in high positions -- ambassador to Indonesia, where he did a very good job representing our country."

The two stories are just twelve days apart...what behind-the-scenes deal was made?
:wtf:

[earthboundmisfit]

1. Me, too - my sigh of relief with Wolfensohn's statement 12 days ago

has turned today into gasp of disbelief & revulsion!

[Career Prole]

4. I found the U-turn mentioned in this article (last paragraph, of course)

but still no explanation.

Wolfensohn earlier this month denied that Wolfowitz was in the running to be his successor, reportedly after some European capitals made clear their opposition. But on Wednesday he was fulsome in his praise.

"He is a person of high intellect and broad experience in and out of government and he has many qualifications that would be critical to leading the Bank," he said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1504&e=7&u=/afp/20050316/pl_afp/usworldbankwolfowitz_050316224125

What the hell is going on here? Two short weeks takes Wolfensohn from "...successor should be someone who is passionate about fighting poverty and promoting human development, not just a good manager"

all the way to

"He is a person of high intellect and broad experience in and out of government and he has many qualifications that would be critical to leading the Bank"?!?!

There had to have been some serious freakin' arm-twisting happened between statement 1 and statement 2.

[Patty Diana]

8. I think some NEOCON read this article & lit up like a xmas tree

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0304-34.htm Top 10 reasons why wolfowitz would be great for the job

[Career Prole]

9. Funny!

Sad....but funny! :D

"He can develop a pre-emptive poverty doctrine where the World Bank could invade countries that fail to make themselves safe for U.S. business..."

:hi:

[riverwalker]

2. we can fight it

Wolfowitz still needs approval by the WTG board. Maybe if the offices are flooded with opposition to Wolfowitz by Americans, whatever blackmail the BFEE used to get him nominated will lose some power. Maybe.

Headquarters
The World Bank
1818 H Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20433 U.S.A.
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fax: [phone]

Media Relations, Washington DC

The World Bank
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433 Fax: [phone]
News bureau: [phone]

Damian Sean Milverton
Acting Media Manager
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail] Carl Hanlon,
Chief, Broadcast and Multimedia
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Cynthia Case-McMahon,
(TV/Radio)
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail] David Theis
N. American Press Officer
Chief, News Bureau
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

[Career Prole]

5. Thanks...I believe I'll do that! n/t

[kohodog]

3. At least World Bank will no longer be wearing sheep's clothing!

The only countries not hurt by their policies are the ones that refused their 'help" WB offered. With Wolfowitz therepeople will look much harder at their policies and is that such a bad thing? Plus he'll be out of Defense.

On the other hand maybe Bono could have pointed it in the right direction.

[Book Lover]

6. I think his nomination isn't serious...

I think he was nominated to extract the outrage in the MSM. After his name is withdrawn, another will be put forth that would have generated maybe as much outrage, but after the hubbub dies down, that name will shine.

[Career Prole]

10. Have a look at this article from the Counterpunch archives...

...by Kurt Nimmo on November 19,2002...
The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq:
PR Spinning the Bush Doctrine>

<snip>

The Committee press release, however, mentions absolutely nothing about how these objectives will be achieved. But then, considering who is involved with the Committee, we don't need much of an explanation -- in essence, the Committee is a PR front for the Bush attack Iraq policy currently under way full steam ahead. The Committee is little more than an extension of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), an "educational" organization packed with neocons such as William Kristol and Robert Kagan. PNAC, according to its web page, is "dedicated to a few fundamental propositions: that American leadership is good both for America and for the world; that such leadership requires military strength, diplomatic energy and commitment to moral principle." In other words, Pax Americana installed unilaterally by way of bunker-buster and cluster bomb diplomacy. Lest you think PNAC and the Committee are not joined at the hip, consider who agreed to be an officer of this new (non) NGO -- Gary Schmitt, PNAC's executive director.

<snip>

In essence, the Committee, with all its highfalutin' rhetoric about "regional peace, political freedom and international security," is interested only in an up-to-date version of colonialism to be imposed on Iraq or any other third world nation of interest to transnational corporations. After the bombing and mass murder of innocents is complete in Iraq, Bush will install a military proconsul -- more than likely General Tommy Franks in the role of General Douglas MacArthur -- and eventually Ahmed Chalabi or one of his toadies will be allowed to supervise a "democratic" Iraq. Like Hamid Karzai (a former Unocal consultant) in Afghanistan, the handpicked leader of Iraq will surely require 24-7 bodyguards to protect him from his own people. No doubt he will break bread with World Bank President James Wolfensohn and kiss the derriere of transnational oil corporations. He will have no choice but to allow US military bases that will be used to attack Iran, Syria, Libya, or any other nation considering deviance from the Pax Americana agenda and transnational-at-the-global-feed-trough game plan...

Iraq's (Shrub's) chosen leader won't need to court World Bank president Wolfensohn now. Everyone will be working for PNAC!

[Jesus Saves]

7. Still any chance of Bono getting the position?

[Reverend_Smitty]

11. Yeah Bono would have rocked...

pardon the pun. Hell I would have been a better pick to head the world bank, pretty much anyone who isn't a soul-less lizard man would have been a better pick!