Posted on 04/19/2007 7:26:02 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
Besieged by rising calls for his resignation, World Bank President Paul D. Wolfowitz met with the institution's senior management team behind closed doors yesterday to acknowledge problems with his leadership and offer to make significant front-office changes, several knowledgeable bank sources said.
When one participant suggested that Wolfowitz's departure would resolve the problems, Wolfowitz replied that he had no plans to resign and that leaving "under the current circumstances" would not help the institution. Instead, he offered to change his management style and the "structure" of his office. Several officials interpreted that as willingness to remove or limit the authority of two senior aides, former Bush administration officials Robin Cleveland and Kevin Kellems, who have clashed with bank staff members during Wolfowitz's tenure.
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You sound as though you may be closer to this than us. I support Wolfowitz. I think people are trying to railroad him, but you provide some interesting, if not useful, background information.
The whole circus by the anti-american left is about picking apart (and potentially imprisoning) as many “Bushies” and Neocons as possible. DeLay, Libby, Rumsfeld, Bolton are already checked off the list. Now Gonzalez and Wolfowitz the “chief” neocon, are being targetted. They can’t wait to hold hearings on Rove and ultimately impeach Bush/Cheney.
The Democrats and the moonbats have smelled blood since the Plame-thing and now are like rabies.
Therefore Regardless of how well or bad those Bush Administration fellas have done their jobs... we have to fight and stick to our guns. No backing down. No resignations. No apologies.
The only “change” he needs to make is to get his tail out of there and off overly-generous taxpayer support. Like McNmaara, he was a disaster at the Pentagon, like McNamara, he’s an incompetent disaster at the World Bank.
Executive Summary:
“Look, I’ll lay off the necessary reforms if you just let me keep my lucrative, tax free job with all the first class travel to world playgrounds.”
Maybe he’ll soon be following Robert McNamara’s example and write a book saying that he knew the Iraq war was wrong back in 2004 but was swept along by an arrogant President.
I do not support Wolfoputz. I don’t trust his bedding Muslim chicks. And ugly ones at that. He is a Jew. His mother would be spinning in her grave.
I really don’t think he could do, any better. Looks, passed him by a long time ago.
Intriguing analysis, I think there is something interesting about the impact of the plame thing.
Cripes, why is everyone focusing on their looks? Neither are that bad-looking, they are average-looking, no better or worse than most of us, and it’s a signal they got their jobs because they are smart. What annoys me is their entitlement behavior.
Well, as my late father would say, “You could place both of them out in a corn field, and crows would bring back corn, they had stole, three years ago.”
Why should we believe you know what you are talking about?
Clearly you have an agenda here...why?
Oh Yeah.Kool Aid is refreshing, isn't it!
“I do not support Wolfoputz. I dont trust his bedding Muslim chicks”.
Oh come on! If they love each other, why should ethnicity stand in the way? It wasn’t that long ago that some in my family were scandalized when my oldest (Lutheran) aunt married a Catholic man and converted. They stayed married for over 60 years, until he died. They were a wonderful couple. (I say that even though we had VERY divergent political views).
I take it he hasn’t resigned or been booted.
The Gapsters seem to be stretching—Time and materials figure is substantially higher for the other two consultants and materials costs seem more likely. Toensing has no reason to lie and wouldn’t. In the end it would be harmful to her client.
I note that the World Bank hired outside counsel (Dunn & Crutcher) to review the terms and like the ethics committee found no impropriety. With further regard to the Gapsters:”WASHINGTON - The Pentagon’s inspector general looked into the Defence Department’s 2003 order for a contractor to hire the girlfriend of then-Pentagon No 2 Paul Wolfowitz, but found no violation to warrant a deeper probe, defence officials said today.
A 2005 investigation by the inspector general found that Shaha Riza, Wolfowitz’s companion and a World Bank employee, was qualified to serve as an expert to carry out a study related to Iraq, investigation results show.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Wolfowitz may have recommended Riza for the job, but she was also recommended by others and was uniquely qualified.”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10435186
I have a hard time believing Toensing would lie, too.
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