Oh Paul, the righteous indignation becomes you.
Paul Wolfowitz's handling of his girlfriend's promotion violated the terms of his contract and constituted a conflict of interest, precipitating a "crisis in the leadership" at the World Bank, a panel has said.
It recommended that the bank's board consider whether its president could "provide the leadership needed" to fulfil the bank's mandate.
Wolfowitz described the report as "unfair and unwarranted".
(via) Career civil servants who had helped plan U.S. peacekeeping operations in Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo said it was imperative to maintain a military force large enough to stamp out challenges to its authority right away. Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, then-Army chief of staff, thought several hundred thousand soldiers would be needed.Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz rebutted him sharply and publicly.
"It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army," Wolfowitz told the House Budget Committee on Feb. 27. "Hard to imagine."
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz: “There’s a lot of money to pay for this that doesn’t have to be U.S. taxpayer money, and it starts with the assets of the Iraqi people…and on a rough recollection, the oil revenues of that country 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.”
[Source: House Committee on Appropriations Hearing on a Supplemental War Regulation, 3/27/03]
Closest thing Feith has to being tied for dumbest fucking man on the planet.
Posted by kerry at May 15, 2007 04:29 AM