From a CNN piece today:
In an interview with AP, Wolfowitz said he really believed in the mission of the World Bank, “which is reducing poverty.”
“It is a noble mission and a matter of enlightened self-interest.”
The nomination was the subject of much debate in Thursday’s newspapers.
The Wall Street Journal commented: “Mr. Wolfowitz is willing to speak the truth to power. He saw earlier than most, and spoke publicly about, the need for dictators to plan democratic transitions.
“It is the world’s dictators who are the chief causes of world poverty. If anyone can stand up to the Robert Mugabes of the world, it must be the man who stood up to Saddam Hussein.”
me … WTF ?
The Financial Times was less upbeat. It likened Wolfowitz’s nomination to that of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the U.N.
It called the decision “the second shock this month to Europeans who thought Mr. Bush would present a kinder, gentler face to the world in his second term.”
“Some non-governmental groups fear Mr. Wolfowitz will … seek to enlist the bank in the larger project of building U.S. security by spreading democracy.”
me … yikes !!! Run .. fast …
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March 17, 2005 at 9:27 pm
Anonymous
Wolfowitz speaking truth to power?! Irony is not only dead, its corpse has been dug back up and hanged from a tree.
March 17, 2005 at 10:05 pm
Anonymous
It really is amazing, in the true sense of the word … how hard it is to keep thinking things may be “normal” again some day … these guys seems determined, nay .. take glee in … rubbing everyone’s fucking nose in it. If I were an American, I think the best revenge would be to try to get on some permanent disability pension falsely, and then drink great Scotch in copiuous quantities, eat the best strip loins and order in good dark brown Nepali hash once a week for as long as I could … and endlessly watch re-runs of the Sopranos, or something. n And blog my ass off, so to speak.
March 18, 2005 at 6:46 am
Anonymous
the has the beef the booze the reruns…it’s so Canadian of you.
the delusion is setting into a jellied psychosis.
will things get back to ‘normal’. I believe they will. Things will come undone. The violence that will be meeted out on these frauds will come from those within their own ranks.