"Condoleezza Rice has offered Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Iraq War, a position..."

[laststeamtrain]

An Old Face Resurfaces

The Bush administration has offered the former World Bank president a new public service position.
By Michael Isikoff
NEWSWEEK
Updated: 1:33 PM ET Dec 1, 2007

Don't ever say the Bush administration doesn't take care of its own. Nearly three years after Paul Wolfowitz resigned as deputy Defense secretary and six months after his stormy departure as president of the World Bank—amid allegations that he improperly awarded a raise to his girlfriend—he's in line to return to public service. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has offered Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Iraq War, a position as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board, a prestigious State Department panel, according to two department sources who declined to be identified discussing personnel matters. The 18-member panel, which has access to highly classified intelligence, advises Rice on disarmament, nuclear proliferation, WMD issues and other matters. "We think he is well suited and will do an excellent job," said one senior official.

Wolfowitz, now a visiting scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, will replace former senator Fred Thompson, who quit over the summer to run for president. Although officials declined to say how Rice came to choose him, Wolfowitz began his government career in the 1970s in the State Department as an arms-control expert; he forged a relationship with Rice during the 2000 presidential campaign, when they both served as top foreign-policy advisers to the then candidate Bush. But his selection has raised more than a few eyebrows within State because he'll be providing advice on some of the same issues that critics say the administration got spectacularly wrong when Wolfowitz was pushing the case for the Iraq War at the Pentagon. (One of the department sources called the appointment "amazing.") At least Wolfowitz, who did not return calls seeking comment, will have like-minded company: other panel members include Robert Joseph, the former National Security Council official in charge of Iraq WMD intelligence, and ex-CIA director James Woolsey, both strong allies during the Iraq debate.

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[Auggie]

1. Won't this goon ever go away?

[laststeamtrain]

6. "One of the department sources called the appointment "amazing." "

"...he'll be providing advice on some of the same issues that critics say the administration got spectacularly wrong when Wolfowitz was pushing the case for the Iraq War at the Pentagon. (One of the department sources called the appointment "amazing.")"
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I guess "amazing' is one word for this appoinment. Insane is another. I'm kind of stunned.

[Whoa_Nelly]

9. Gah!

When will the megalomaniacal insanity stop???

[C_U_L8R]

2. but does his girlfriend get a job too?

[Toucano]

19. He'll get a new girlfriend and promote from within.

That's the Republican way. :-)

[Faygo Kid]

3. Gearing up to attack Iran, the band is getting back together.

Another sure sign that an attack on Iran is less than six months away.

Wolfowitz has a real red, white and blue legacy.

[Benhurst]

4. Condoleezza (sic) probably wants Wolfowitz to run his comb through her hair.

[Rock_Garden]

5. He's now a visiting scholar?

Slimy, slimy, slimy.

[JBoy]

7. Sounds like a position he could sink his teeth into

[asjr]

8. It just keeps getting worse. I wonder if

Scooter Libby is being considered next for some sort of State Dept. Truth in advertising position?

[acmavm]

10. Oh no. Not Wolfie again. Does this mean that no one wants to work with

this administration so they have to keep hauling out the original band of criminals, or has Wolfie been threatening to go public with some juicy stories if they don't find him a high-profile, well paying position?

Wonder if one of the job requirements will be new socks.

[bbgrunt]

11. holy dog in heaven--these vampires never die.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

12. Is "Doggie style" a position?

nt

[grasswire]

13. too bad Valerie Plame couldn't have gotten that job...

...considering her expertise in proliferation.

[mod mom]

14. The comb-licker needs to hear protests where ever his sorry ass goes!

[warren pease]

15. Goes to show, you just can't keep a good man down...

While he wasn't appreciated for his prescient advice on Iraq or Afghanistan, and his hawkish positions on everything from Israel to which fork to use for his salad alienated the more moderate wing of the Reich, and even though he left the World Bank in disgrace after refusing to depart until his contract was fully vested, even as he was slipping a little extra change to his lupine princess on the side...

Even after all the misunderstanding and ill-informed speculation about his capabilities, his motivation, his corruptibility, his inner Idi Amin and his choice of salad forks, his career is proof that the cream always rises to the top... just before it curdles and coalesces into a gelatinous glob of foul-smelling slime destined for the toxic waste facility.

We're about at the gelatinous glob stage with this guy. One can only hope the next stop is the steel vat at the toxic landfill, where he'll slowly become one with a stew of deadly poisons and sealed off from the environment for the next 10,000 years.

Even so, bring the mallets and stakes, just in case.


wp

[Booster]

16. Wow, that's rich. The Int. SECURITY Board. Makes sense to me.

[Hydra]

17. This was probably his job the whole time

except when he was at the World Bank, breaking windows in poor countries.

I bet none of these people get their security accesses jerked when they have to bow out due to scandal or good political timing. I've heard Rummy still has a desk at the Pentagon.

[Solly Mack]

18. lol revolving door of non - accountability

[XOKCowboy]

20. As usual corruption and incompetence is rewarded by the Bushes

Has this guy every been right about anything except how to bribe a woman to sleep with him? Amazing? More like what incredible gall.

:eyes:

[Snarkoleptic]

21. Wolfowitz resurfaces again...like a turd in the punchbowl!

[susu369]

23. Wolfie is the turd that will not flush -

both he and his buddy Perle.

[tsuki]

22. This is not surprising. I think the GOP is running into cash difficulties.

Until Bill Maher asked how can you call yourself a think tank when you're wrong about everything, I never thought much about GOP finances.

I started collecting budgets for conservative think tanks and ran into a lot of money needs. From the AEI to the James Madison Institute, these groups are need massive funding. Bolton and Wolfowitz went to the AEI. Judith Miller went to the Manhattan Institute. Bloody Bill Crystal is financed by the AEI. Then there are swiftboat groups, fake news sites, fake reporters and the like. The GOP has one huge money need.

And the perks and benefits are there for the "fellows."

After I started looking into this massive bureaucracy, it came as no surprise that they don't have the money to run campaigns and are looking for rich candidates to finance their own campaigns.

They must get some of these "freeloaders" off the GOP "welfare roles" and gainfully employed.