Paul Wolfowitz and John Bolton: Thuggery afoot ...

[struggle4progress]

... in the World Bank & United Nations

By Ray Lee

The recent Bush Administration appointments of Paul Wolfowitz as President of the World Bank, and John Bolton as Ambassador to the UN demonstrate the contempt that the 'leaders of the free world' show for those inhabiting it, not to mention those who don't belong to the club. For anyone who knows anything about Paul Wolfowitz and John Bolton, there is no doubt that their appointment is an insult to the organisations they will be working with, or at the very least an insult to the stated principles of those organisations. <snip>

Wolfowitz will probably do a fine job of accelerating World Bank development programs that have done wonders for countries like Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina, because as he showed with his work in Iraq, if economic pressures work too slowly when it comes to opening up a country for development...well, we've got the bomb. One would be naive to expect the use of terms found in political discourse to have any correlation to their actual meanings. <snip>

John Bolton's appointment as US ambassador to the UN is in some ways very fitting, especially considering the Bush Administration's view of that organisation. Bolton's achievements include annoying the North Koreans to the extent that they've said they will not participate in any talks in which he's a part. During the last round of talks he repeatedly insulted the regime during visits to Russia and Seoul. Whatever truth his remarks may have held, they certainly couldn't be called diplomatic. Bolton has repeatedly made remarks along the lines of, 'Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance US interests'. To the Global Structures Convention in February 1994, Bolton said, 'There is no such thing as the United Nations... There is an international community that occasionally can be led by... the US when it suits our interest and when we can get others to go along'. So in fact, Bolton's ideas adhere perfectly to the attitude shown towards the UN when the war-drums were being banged. In an interview on Australian television in July 2003, Bolton said 'we're going to go beyond words and treaties and agreements... to defend ourselves against the spread of weapons of mass destruction'. In other words, Mr Bolton is saying that any agreement signed with us isn't worth the paper it's printed on. A great choice for the job of Ambassador to the UN, that is if the aim of the position is to oversee the relegation of the organisation to complete irrelevance if not its complete dismantling. <snip>

http://www.thecud.com.au/story_wolfowitz_110405.htm

[whistle]

1. Of course, through John Negroponte into that mix and you have

...the PNAC cabal agitating for world domination. These bastards will not hesitate to use nuclear weapons and sacrifice half of the world's population to achieve their insane vision.

[Dirk39]

2. Reality...

puts all conspiracy theories in the shade.
Whenever I did thought within the last years: "No, they will not do it - it's just me, expecting the worst - they could simply not get away with this..." They not just did it, they were doing things far beyond my paranoid nightmares.

My only remaining hope is that Bush and his criminal junta will fail, 'cause they are ideologists of the worst kind. After they murdered more than 100.000 innocent Iraqis and their whole war against Terror became nothing but a failure, they don't step back, they don't try to repair the damage, they have done - not to mankind, but to their own agenda - they're just pumping up the volume in desperation.
As more and more countries are not willing to accept the economic genocide anymore, which is the agenda of the Worldbank and the IMF (Argentinia, Brazil, not to mention Venezuela). The fascist Bush-Junta has nothing better to offer than Wolfowitz as the Worldbank-chief - and Blair to play the moderate, who's one more time telling the uneducated europeans that the worldbank is there, to support the poor...


Hello from Germany,
Dirk

[struggle4progress]

3. I am afraid it will get worse here before it gets better. The people ...

... of my country aren't really paying enough attention yet.

[teryang]

4. Put the criminals out front in the public eye where they belong

They personify the regime they represent. The fakes like Colin Powell are much more dangerous. They put a statesmen like facade to what is essentially a fascist party ruled state.