Mr. Wolfowitz and the Bank -NYT

[spindrifter]

Published: January 2, 2007

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...why do so many people at the bank mistrust him — including many of the leading shareholders? At last fall’s annual meeting, European ministers insisted that the bank’s board would oversee Mr. Wolfowitz’s anticorruption program, to ensure that no country was punished arbitrarily.

That is not a vote of confidence and not a healthy state of affairs. Mr. Wolfowitz needs to figure out how to earn more than just the Bush administration’s trust.

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Mr. Wolfowitz and his aides did an especially poor job explaining their decisions to suspend or delay hundreds of millions of dollars in loans because of alleged corruption, feeding fears that they were settling scores. When Hilary Benn, Britain’s top aid official, publicly questioned bank policies, an unidentified senior bank official dismissed Mr. Benn to The Financial Times as “an ambitious political climber.” That’s no way to win friends or donors. Mr. Wolfowitz wrote to the paper to say that was not his view and has since visited London to patch things up, but relations remain cool.

Mr. Wolfowitz has yet to outline a broader vision for the bank, which might inspire his staff and rally international support. There are certainly a host of issues that need his leadership. The bank needs to give more of a voice to less wealthy and poor countries. It needs to find new ways to mobilize private sector financing. And it needs to get more deeply — and more systematically — involved in addressing global challenges like epidemics, sustainable energy and post-conflict reconstruction.

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ttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/opinion/02tue1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[The Crazy Canadian]

1. A neocon like Wolfowitz cares about the poor and corruption? That's a laugh.

[Lasher]

2. Boy, talk about a fox in the henhouse.

We need to get Wolfowitz out of there right now. It's like sending the UN hater Boulton to be our representative to the UN. The title of the editorial should more properly read, World Bank Officials Finally Catching Onto Wolfowitz

"For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction (as justification for invading Iraq) because it was the one reason everyone could agree on." - Paul Wolfowitz, May 28, 2003

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/06/10_wmd.html

"The oil revenues of Iraq could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years. We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon." Paul Wolfowitz,

http://www.americanprogress.org/kf/priraqclaimfact1029.htm

[illinoisprogressive]

3. Wolfie is the one I hope gets nailed by the dems.

It was his plan, his pushing, his idea. He was assistant to Rummy in the Ford administration and they began this Plan b group (like the Iraq group in the whitehouse before the war). Wolfie, Rummy and Cheney. They engineered the overthrow of Kissinger and Rockefeller from the administration. Because they promoted the peace policies of detant and the three stooges drew up a plan (the first draft of project for the new american century) to do to the USSR what they eventually did to Iraq.
This whole neocon thing and the new american century and the war was begun 30 years ago behind Fords back and they staged a coup of the moderates and dentant supporters. They started this thing and ford shut down Plan b. These guys brought it to Reagan and began with Iran/contra and eventually reagan threw them out. Then to Bush Sr. who shut them out. They tried Clinton who didn't buy it. Then, engineer to have W as president and the one who'd do it.
The irony is of Ford dying now. As we hit 3,000. and everyone gathers at the funeral of the man who unknowingly brought these slugs together and began a 30 year attempt at regime change. It was during the first gulf war that it was changed to Iraq.
Wolfowitz was the brainchild. he is the one I want in jail.