SECURITY

An Old Face Resurfaces

The Bush administration has offered the former World Bank president a new public service position.

By Michael Isikoff | NEWSWEEK

Dec 10, 2007 Issue

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Posted By: ROBinDALLAS @ 03/31/2008 11:21:05 PM

Comment: Wolfowitz has failed miserably in his last 2 jobs. At the State Department he was one of the architects and cheerleaders pushing the invasion of Iraq. FAILURE! He then gets booted from the World Bank for taking care of the salary and promotion of his girlfriend. FAILURE! How do they get away with having Condi Rice give him the chairmanship of the International Security Advisory Board? He gets right into the thick of it again, even though he has been a miserable FAILURE at his last two insider jobs. What the F---? I suspect it is only because he knows too much.
Posted By: jdcolv_pol @ 03/12/2008 9:54:02 PM

Comment: Experience vs. Judgment: Where have we heard that refrain recently. Wolfowitz has experience, but no judgement. I think I'll go with judgment.
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Posted By: t9900 @ 12/07/2007 4:05:26 PM

Comment: "Posted By: Pissed Off @ 12/03/2007 6:48:48 PM
Comment: Once again the Bush-Cheney Crime, Drug and Fraud Regime brings back its fellow stooges to do its dirty work. Wolfowitz the Neocon and Zionist, dear friend to the terrorist state of Israel. All in bed together. All need to be tried and hung as soon as possible."

I see you as someone who would support sombody like Stalin.
Posted By: Tanha @ 12/06/2007 12:39:19 AM

Comment: He shall be given a gold medal for his crimes like those who crashed down Iranian civil aircraft killing all passengers and crew including 66 children.
Posted By: Noob-herder @ 12/05/2007 9:52:39 PM

Comment: Best of luck to all of us on this Wolfowitz thing (it takes an act of congress to stop W from giving his cronies jobs) and maybe you should ALL vote this time instead of fondling off to reruns of the Victoria's Secret runway show... good though that may be... the un-intelligent of this country need to be stopped from electing yet another bible-thumping cowboy moron hanging from strings.
Posted By: Noob-herder @ 12/05/2007 9:52:31 PM

Comment:
Why are we allowing this kind of garbage from these scum? I have to agree with ThirstyJon (obviously a NC) ... yes, Wolfowitz must be brilliant, and he does a brilliant job... he's got all you poor uneducated corn-fed country-raised conservatives thinking that he's on your team, and he's definitely doing well holding on to the rectum of this country like peanutbutter toothpaste. Hell, the republicans controlling the war - or the white house - have got ALL the rest of the Conservative right thinking "our team is winning!"... meanwhile, they'd sell your hides to make an extra buck as well. Poor deluded fools. Bush doesn't care about anything or anyone outside of his circle of speed dial numbers.. and keeping you under his spin job for a little bit longer to continue the windfall.

I can't complain, I made a killing investing in military suppliers, food and housing contractors, companies that specialize in war... WAAAAY back in 2000 when the election was rigged by Bush and family. You can make a fortune swinging your stock portfolio from consumer goods during Democrap years to war machine investments during Republitard administrations. Oh well, the ADHD Americans have suddenly remembered that their bank accounts were plush the last time a Dem was in office, so they're gonna swing the pendulum the other way this coming year. Poor chance in hell of a republican (aside from {a very GOOD man} Ron Paul and his snowball) winning the 08 Oval Office.
- Posted By: t9900 @ 12/07/2007 15:57:06
  
  Comment: Due just grow up or shut up. You look like the biggest retard. I'd rather have Bush run the country as a dictator then you continue speuling out illogical hate and stereotypes. Are you that unbelievably blind?You sound exactly like you accuse Republicans of being. You are either brainwashed or have been dropped on your head at least 100 times. Go read several unbiased books on US history, US politics, and the US government. And then reread your comments to see how unbelievable you sound.
Posted By: Noob-herder @ 12/05/2007 9:51:57 PM

Comment:
Fine, Saddam was a bad bad man, but so was Castro, and so is Kim Jong il. Those countries didn't spit in W's daddy's eye and they don't control vast oil reserves and we can't justify a prolonged war with them with which to fund the military industrial complex (Halliburton anyone?)... face it, the scam that got Bushie into office and the totalitarian regime that has been blanketed over the populace since then has all been a GET RICH SCHEME for a few dozen key businessmen and political players in this country. Your kids are dying for their portfolios.

And don't get me started on the immorality of the regime... the Republicans have no moral ground to spit on - not with senators having solicited gay sex in airport bathrooms and yet others molesting their pages. My god, is there nobody who can hold all of these concepts in their mind at the same time and provide some kind of comparison between good presidents like Clinton and Truman and evil turds like Bush and Nixon? Hello? Anyone in the US read ANY history at all?
- Posted By: t9900 @ 12/07/2007 15:52:07
  
  Comment: Actually compared to you even Bush as more morals. The only thing that comes from people like you is hate and hypocrisy.
  
  BTW, Nixon was a great President. He just caught. To say no 'good' liberal president ever cheated means you are the uneducated American non-Americans always talk about.
Posted By: Noob-herder @ 12/05/2007 9:51:28 PM

Comment:
Where oh where have the good people gone? Why has nobody supported the calls for impeachment of ALL the scum in the white house? How can a nation with so many intelligent people allow these glaringly bad things to happen? Why does feedcap America think that the republican party represents them? Because they support farm bills that pay farmers to NOT grow crops or because they hate killing unborn babies (statistically from poorer backgrounds - who suspiciously turn to military service as a means of education when they reach the ripe age of 18). I wasn't aware of any military weapons manufacturers in those corn fields.

It is time to get the political elitists out of the White House... all of these millionaires and born/bred politicians are part of the problem... it is in their best financial interests to keep the American populace poor and uneducated. Implement 1 or 2 term limits for Congressmen so they can vote their conscience. Reduce all elected office salaries to reflect the average salary of the people by whom they were elected. Require candidates to be publicly funded so that they don't have to cup corporate balls when they are elected. Require clarity in financial reporting from all local, state and federal governments. There is far too much back-scratching and millionaires being made in the DC area. If our founding fathers were alive, they would start another revolution to fight against the politicians who had the gonads to spend ONE TRILLION DOLLARS on a war that should never have happened instead of developing clean renewable energy (solar anyone) or writing everyone ON PLANET EARTH A CHECK FOR $149 ( I could have bought a Wii).
- Posted By: t9900 @ 12/07/2007 15:49:38
  
  Comment: Because the actual democrats are so much smarter then you. You need to grow up.
Posted By: Noob-herder @ 12/05/2007 9:50:57 PM

Comment:
I think it's an understatement to say that Hitler and Goebbels were evil men, but the planning and execution of Kristallnacht and the rise of the SS were pure moments of sheer PR brilliance. How exciting it must be to create a false enemy, stir up your constituents, give them an enemy to kill (real or imagined) and then drag your country into a bloody War which richens the coffers of the elite Aristocracy. Oh wait...... was I talking about Bush... or Hitler... or Rumsfeld... or Caesar... or Cheney... or Attila... or Wolfowitz... it's all blending into one concept. Oh well, back to the rant.
Posted By: Noob-herder @ 12/05/2007 9:50:30 PM

Comment: The names Wolfowitz, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Hitler, Goebbels, Stalin, Napoleon, Caesar, Botha, Mussolini and Castro have been enshrined in a very long list of very poor mannered, bad people. By the same stroke of a pen, many of their plans (and please don't get me wrong in my intention) are used as examples of brilliant maneuvers (both politically and militarily). While I will never accuse Bush of being a genius, it is quite clear that his ability to survive, control, and pervert the system around him places him high in the cabal of evil masterminds.
- Posted By: t9900 @ 12/07/2007 16:02:16
  
  Comment: Do you know who Stalin and Hitler is?
Posted By: Mwalimu @ 12/05/2007 12:27:47 PM

Comment:
If Paul Wolfowitz get appointed to the International Security Advisory Board, will we need to provide a job for his concubine as well? How ironic that an Administration who got elected because they wanted to protect marriage from homosexuals and who attempted to impeach Bill Clinton for marital infidelity is now providing a sinecure for a man who openly flaunts the conventions of marriage. Long live Republican morality!!!

What are Wolfowitz???s credentials as a security advisor. After 9-11, instead of going after bin-Laden, we invaded Iraq. That???s about as stupid as invading Brazil after Pearl Harbor. While I???m glad there???s a lull in the bloodshed in Iraq, violence still continues. The horrible toll of humans killed and maimed, both Iraqi and American, for a barrel of oil proves that the barbaric rituals of human sacrifice are alive and well. While we???re bogged down in Iraq, Al Qaeda is regrouping in Afghanistan. According to a recent article in Spiegel Magazine, Al Qaeda is also establishing a bridgehead in Bosnia. If you were to read recent reports in the Los Angeles Times, Al Qaeda is attracting followers from countries like Tunisia primarily because of our occupation of Iraq. The longer we occupy Iraq, the more attractive Al Qaeda becomes. I might add that as long as the global economy dictates that young men in Islamic countries remain condemned to a lifetime of poverty and/or unemployment, Al Qaeda will continue to have a breeding ground for recruits. Does Wolfowitz even understand this? In the mean time, 6 years after 9-11, we still haven???t captured bin-Laden, and at the bidding of the American Enterprise Institute, we???re plotting a war with Iran.

I remember in 2003 when Newsweek itself was lionizing Wolfowitz who envisioned America as the new Roman Empire. What neither Wolfowitz nor Newsweek understands is that the Roman Empire fell, actually partially for environmental reasons. Romans used lead pipes for plumbing and many skeletons from the Roman era had large concentrations of lead in their bones. Isn???t that a hint about global warming? And do we feel safer now?
Posted By: ThirstyJon @ 12/04/2007 7:45:40 PM

Comment: Here is a possiblity: Although unpopular he may actually be a brilliant man who does a brilliant job!

:-)

ThirstyJon
Posted By: thrasher32 @ 12/04/2007 2:41:06 PM

Comment: Wolfowitz? Sure, why not? While we're at it why don't we clone Hitler and Stalin and appoint them to the Suporeme Court???
Posted By: tdg495 @ 12/04/2007 2:15:16 AM

Comment: disgust is the only word to describe Bush and his "axis of evil" I am not suprised at Wolfowitz he never actually left the cabal, only pro temp de rigour, he still has the power to influence the evil administration's continuing and concerted efforts to trapple on the Constitution and exploit the White House as a huge feeding trough for scary, mostly evil political cromies.......and the Dems are totally scattered and diffuse as a political opponent to this nightmarish cabal, bad times ahead, Babylonian potential, not the USA my grandfather elected to emigrate to. Hard to find any sense of pride now when I travel and state I am American.
Posted By: Bob Egan @ 12/04/2007 12:18:34 AM

Comment: Contacting our ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES is a waste of time and energy! They no longer depend on their 'CONSTITUENTS' to be reelected, but on the power of money provided by their corporate masters.

I believe that the 'core' of the American people still have a strong sense of honor (when it is the other persons honor that is called into question) and can be motivated to demand action if approached from this angle!

Our elected representatives have taken an oath to protect and uphold the constitution. If they have reason to believe that impeachable acts have taken place, they have a duty and obligation to investigate these charges. This has nothing to do with any political party or personality; it is a requirement of their office! To abandon this obligation is to condone treason or other high crimes etc. and therefore become a party to crimes. Why should any one of us vote for anyone that is too crooked or to cowardly to honor their 'oath of office'?

Demanding that our ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES uphold the Constitution and follow the laws of this country is good citizenship. To do less is dishonoring those that have fought for and died to establish a country that we have inherited. We have given up so many of our 'rights' that we are now living in a country that has instituted 'martial law', the yellow media and our government doesn???t have the backbone to admit this!!

Blindly following and backing a government that has lied and deceived it's people and allies, is not being a 'patriot'. Questioning and demanding truth and an adherence to this countries laws, and demanding that it 'honor' its treaties with the rest of this world is!!
As Henry Kissinger said, (and I believe history will show that he was a war criminal.) "The only thing worse than being an enemy of the United States is to be its friend"!!

We hung 'war criminals' just after WW11 for committing the same crimes that this administration has committed, IN OUR NAMES, and now claims to be legal.
Posted By: Bob Egan @ 12/04/2007 12:12:18 AM

Comment: No matter how bad the clowns in this admimistration screw up, the head clown continues to foist them on rthe American People showing an absolute disregard for the 'good' of this country.
We have a loose cannon in the White House, he and Darth Vader should be impeached before this country can no longer be saved!!
Posted By: Bob Egan @ 12/04/2007 12:07:00 AM

Comment: No mater how badly Bush's cohorts screw up, the smirking chimp and Darth Vader will continue to allow them to dump this country further down the toilet! Please, please, let's get Impeachment proceedings going!! I doubt if we have much more time to save this country!!
Posted By: Aarky @ 12/03/2007 10:05:39 PM

Comment: Wolfowitz was one of the enablers of the attack against Iraq and after it was all over admitted that the main reason was about the oil. This is why there should have been wholesale impeachments of about twenty persons at the top level of gov't.. So they could never work in the government again,
Posted By: WhatDoIKnow @ 12/03/2007 9:30:21 PM

Comment: It proves that even Godzilla Rice is the other face of the same coin. He should be in Jail.
It means, the want to have a LIER, THIEF, and a MURDERER as an adviser for national security? This is an insult to all American.
Posted By: WhatDoIKnow @ 12/03/2007 9:27:42 PM

Comment: It proves that even Godzilla Rice is the other face of the same coin. He should be in Jail.
It means, the want to have a LIER, THIEF, and a MURDERER as an adviser for national security? This is an insult to all American.
Posted By: eszewczyk @ 12/03/2007 9:01:28 PM

Comment: You gotta be kidding!
Posted By: Pissed Off @ 12/03/2007 6:50:43 PM

Comment: Hang all these bastards from the Bush-Cheney Crime, Drug and Fraud Regime.
Posted By: Pissed Off @ 12/03/2007 6:48:48 PM

Comment: Once again the Bush-Cheney Crime, Drug and Fraud Regime brings back its fellow stooges to do its dirty work. Wolfowitz the Neocon and Zionist, dear friend to the terrorist state of Israel. All in bed together. All need to be tried and hung as soon as possible.
Posted By: rewinn @ 12/03/2007 6:31:29 PM

Comment: Judging by the number of double-posts here (including me-self) I think the sign-up dialogue does not make it clear that your initial post was accepted when you signup. I suggest Newsweek do something about that.
Posted By: rewinn @ 12/03/2007 6:28:25 PM

Comment: Let's be honest: his departure from the World Bank was not merely "stormy".

He was thrown out for corruption.

So why would anyone trust him with a place of responsiblity in our government?
Posted By: rewinn @ 12/03/2007 6:26:33 PM

Comment: His departure wasn't "stormy".

He was kicked out of the World Bank for corruption.

I suppose that means he'd fit in well in the Bush Administration......again.
Posted By: Canukistan @ 12/03/2007 4:41:14 PM

Comment: Ha, Ha!!! Sometimes you just have to laugh, so you won't scream.
Posted By: gage @ 12/03/2007 4:11:12 PM

Comment: When you consider Wolfowitz's role in getting us mired in Iraq over supposed WMD, and you consider the administration's saber-rattling toward Iran over a supposed nuclear weapons program, and consider how, as a member of this advisory panel, Wolfowitz will be privvy to all the intel on Iran -- a prime spot for tweaking it -- then, consider us screwed! When will these people ever get out of our lives?
Posted By: gage @ 12/03/2007 4:07:09 PM

Comment: When you consider Wolfowitz's role in getting us mired in Iraq, and you consider the administrations saber rattling toward Iran over a supposed nuclear weapons program, and consider that, as a member of this advisory panel, Wolfowitz will have access to all the intel on Iran, then, consider us screwed. When will we get these people out of our lives?! *pulling out hair*
Posted By: Linda in Georgia @ 12/03/2007 3:53:32 PM

Comment: This is an outrage. I did not believe I could lose any more respect for Condi Rice than I already have. This man needs to crawl back into his hole at AEI and stay there.
Posted By: mastaire @ 12/03/2007 2:53:20 PM

Comment: Wolfowitz - Say it isn't so! With less than a year to go until the elections, the "Bushies" are still creating havoc and making questionable decisions that border on the criminal
Lord help us and give us strength.
Posted By: Braes @ 12/03/2007 1:25:52 PM

Comment: Rice, what a sad sad thing you remain complicit in. I suspect those Oil barons still have enough role at State to allow this. It is a shame that the left is crippled in it's willingnes to attack a black-female politician for strings of obvious failures and this outright disgusting appointment. State has owned the whole Blackwater thing. A litany of failure.
Posted By: ljmearsnw @ 12/03/2007 9:09:08 AM

Comment: Hard to figure out.

If I had made as many questionable decisions as this gentleman has reportable done. I'd have a new job in Washington too...sweeping streets (and probably related to a community service plea agreement).).
Posted By: leemortimer @ 12/03/2007 9:04:19 AM

Comment: Would the Democratic candidates be wiling to sign a pledge that Paul Wolfowitz will not be offered a position in their administration?
Posted By: leemortimer @ 12/03/2007 9:03:17 AM

Comment: Would the Democratic candidates be willing to sign a pledge that Paul Wolfowitz will not be offered a position in their administration?
Posted By: SacrAmerican @ 12/03/2007 9:01:44 AM

Comment: The fact is the Bush led Whitehouse can not afford to put anyone but another criminal on staff. Bush and his band of crooks are facing possible war crimes prosecutions. As it stands they require staff who like themselves have a lot to loose if the true extent of their illegal actions are discovered. I for one will make sure their violations do not go unnoticed by the proper authority. I think the type of torture these pukes will eventually meet in the prison shower room will perhaps make waterboarding an appealing alternative.

SacrAmerican
Posted By: aquaticchess @ 12/03/2007 2:49:09 AM

Comment: 911 was a fabrication of the bush admin, they lied and killed there own people to go to war, FACT a scud hit the pentagon while the plane landed in cleveland an hour later, FACT, no plane hit shanksville, as the mayor said "the only difference between this plane crash and others is there is no plane", wtc tower 7 was brought down by implosion and the other towers were wired up before the planes hit, pancake effect does not fall at free fall speed brought on by implosion. If america goes into IRAN its going to backfire like you wouldnt believe, the world needs to convert there petro dollars to euro and teach bush a lesson, when bush goes and the truth comes out then the world can move on, hand your badge in world sheriff bush, your busted you lieing bastard. your about to go bankrupt america, bush chased the oil to protect the dollar, watch what happens in the next 12 mths america, you have to send bush to the hague and ask for forgivness which you will get, the american people are great people, your government is manipulating the world, The world cant believe that the american public let bush get away with it, but he has you all tied up with his patriot act.. time to unplug the phone lines to america for 6 mths and turn our backs, shame shame shame on america for letting this regime get away with it, bush lied and babies died...bush''s human collateral damege. Any new president elect must as part of his campaign promise to reveal the full truth, Wolfowitz got the job because he is in the inside, but now for long, the truth is coming out... the axis of evil is in the white house Do something about america. oh thats right you cant cause your all cowards and to busy pruning your feathers.
- Posted By: t9900 @ 12/07/2007 16:03:23
  
  Comment: Your post isn't worth commenting on. Its that ignorant and hypocritical.
Posted By: aquaticchess @ 12/03/2007 2:18:45 AM

Comment: 911 was a fabrication of the bush admin, they lied there ***,s of and killed there own people to go to war, a scud hit the pentagon while the plane landed in cleveland an hour later, fact, no plane hit shanksville, as the mayor said "the only difference between this plane crash and others is there is no plane", wtc tower 7 was brought down by implosion and the other towers were wired up before the planes hit, if america goes into IRAN its going to backfire like you wouldnt believe, the world needs to convert there petro dollars to euro and teach bush a lesson, when bush goes and the truth comes out then the world can move on, hand your badge in world sheriff bush, your busted you lieing bastard. your about to go bankrupt america, chased the oil to protect the dollar, watch what happens in the next 12 mths america, you have to send bush to the hague and ask for forgivness which you will get, the american people are nice people, your government is manipulating the world, The world cant believe that the american public let bush get away with it, but he has you all tied up with his patriot act.. time to unplug the phone lines to america for 6 mths and turn our backs, shame shame shame on america for letting this regime get away with it, bush lied and babies died...bush''s human collateral,
Posted By: jpaol @ 12/03/2007 1:43:02 AM

Comment: Since the Rove Doctrine holds that Americans have an attention span no greater than 6 months, you can bet that Rumsfeldt will be back in as Bush's National Security Advisor or CIA Director by the first of the year.
- Posted By: Braes @ 12/03/2007 13:31:47
  
  Comment: They went to that hole once too often. Now most of Americans including the Republican members of my family feel absolute shame for supporting W. I personally voted Gore then Kerry. I hope and can see wide majorities in the Senate and House, and the end of this model soon, in favor of the Democratic party. Bush is reduced to rule by pardon, commutation, and recess appointment now.
Posted By: seeker135 @ 12/03/2007 1:32:12 AM

Comment: The halls of government are no longer stalked by Americans. These are Elitists, whose only alliegance is to power and money. Do not make the mistake of thinking thse people think of you as anything like countrymen. You are a peon, to be used or crushed as they wish. Notice no impeachment? Notice the timbre and tone, not to mention the sublstance of recent legislation. Vote Ron Paul . It may already be too late...........
Posted By: seeker135 @ 12/03/2007 1:26:57 AM

Comment: Adding more fuel to the fiery disaster that is the W. Bush administration. Wonder where his girfriend is gonna work. We'll be paying her salary, too, no doubt. Merely another small sign that the apocalypse is upon us. God help us.
Posted By: tired tiger @ 12/03/2007 1:03:19 AM

Comment: Wolfowitz is a prime example of a man educated beyond his intelligence.
- Posted By: Braes @ 12/03/2007 13:33:49
  
  Comment: Amen Bro. You rock the house.
Posted By: radamisto99 @ 12/03/2007 1:00:53 AM

Comment: For those of you who may have forgotten, this is only ONE of the manth things "boy genius" got wrong about Iraq:
We have no idea what kind of ethnic strife might appear in the future, although as I have noted, it has not been the history of Iraq's past.

PAUL WOLFOWITZ, FEBRUARY 27, 2003*

*At that time, Wolfowitz was the Deputy Secretary of Defense
Posted By: tired tiger @ 12/03/2007 1:00:37 AM

Comment: Wolfowitz is a prime example of a man educated beyond his intelligence
Posted By: radamisto99 @ 12/03/2007 12:59:33 AM

Comment: This is astounding! At least Wall Street CEO"s get canned after messing up.
Posted By: SmileySam @ 12/02/2007 10:08:05 PM

Comment: The Neocons last big push is bombing Iran. Bush probably has Rumsfeld on the payroll also, tucked away in some plush little office. At least Fitzgerald got Scooter convicted, and Lord Black, 2 other well known Neocons. Black is to be sentenced on Dec.12 for up to 35 yrs. To date Lord Blacks friend Richard Perle is still trying to push the Neocon brand while Karl Rove is revising history. Scotty and Alberto, well enough said
Posted By: the beer doctor @ 12/02/2007 9:56:35 PM

Comment: It is not surprizing that a new appointment is pulled out of the beauracratic hat. Be thankful that A.E.I. and Fox News are around to keep the cadre on ice, until the next opportunity. Success in the corridors of power has an entirely different meaning from the perceptions of ordinary folks.
- Posted By: Braes @ 12/03/2007 13:37:58
  
  Comment: Just extended and expanded members of the Cabal. This was war of by and for Enron-types. Oligarchy. The reduction in competition in the Oil sector and no anti-trust action against them, and the naked political management of prosecutions have expanded and extended this. All of this works against the genius of a Republic, and the freedom of it's people.
Posted By: follower of Basho @ 12/02/2007 9:51:06 PM

Comment: This is outragous! Defense Department's Office of the Inspector General has said Wolfowitz played a key role in the cooking of intelligence related to Iraq's ties to al-Qaeda and its supposed cache of chemical and biological weapons. That effort helped the White House lay the groundwork for a US-led invasion..Wolfowitz is considered by many to be criminal in his past conduct- and wrong in most of his predictions.
Posted By: the beer doctor @ 12/02/2007 9:50:58 PM

Comment: old lies never die, they just get rearranged. Be thankful for the think tanks of the right like A.E.I. and Fox news. It helps to keep the cadre around until the next appointment. Success in the corridors of power has an entirely different meaning.
Posted By: nutty4tahoe @ 12/02/2007 4:21:17 PM

Comment: Whatever it takes to keep a guy quiet....I think it's called bribery.
Posted By: dansama @ 12/02/2007 4:13:03 PM

Comment: This is what happens when you don't impeach. They keep coming back like rabid jackals ready to gnaw on the corpse of Lady Liberty, before she was covered up and hustled out to some dark cell in Gitmo. Why is Wolfowitz not in jail? What do you have to do to get held accountable in this country, oh ya be a minority and stage dog fights, thats an outrage, but lie this country into war that killed 1 million Iraqis, oh well who won dancing with the stars?
Posted By: dansama @ 12/02/2007 4:12:33 PM

Comment: This is what happens when you don't impeach. They keep coming back like rabid jackals ready to gnaw on the corpse of Lady Liberty, before she was covered up and hustled out to some dark cell in Gitmo. Why is Wolfowitz not in jail? What do you have to do to get held accountable in this country, oh ya be a minority and stage dog fights, thats an outrage, but lie this country into war that killed 1 million Iraqis, oh well who won dancing with the stars?
Posted By: Madame Degarge @ 12/02/2007 2:54:46 PM

Comment: Since Wolfowitz is undoubtedly a hawk on Iran, this probably bodes ill for those in the Administration who are trying to stave off an attack. And bad news for the rest of us.

If we bomb Iran, it's been reported that they will retailate in numerous ways. Regardless of the consequences, there are still those in the Administration who believe that once invaded, the Iranians will overthrow their regime and greet us with flowers, just like they did in iraq. Oh, wait! It didn't quite turn out that way!
Posted By: Chenille Spreads @ 12/02/2007 2:47:46 PM

Comment: This appointment ranks up there with Newsweek's bright idea to hire Karl Rove.
Posted By: Chenille Spreads @ 12/02/2007 2:46:04 PM

Comment: This ranks up there with offering Karl Rove an editor position at Newsweek.
- Posted By: easyreader @ 12/02/2007 15:19:46
  
  Comment: Wait a minute, Newsweek hired Karl Rove??? That would be funny if it were not such an abandonment of journalisitic principles. Rove is going around sayingCongress pushed Bush into Iraq. Even when contradicted by Fleischer, he sticks with the ridiculous story. Isn't thepoint of a newsmagazine to be ,oh I don't know, maybe a CREDIBLE sourceof information??
  Maybe the MSM has a case of Stockhome syndrome-- they have begun toidentify with their kidnappers...
Posted By: American_Kid @ 12/02/2007 2:39:46 PM

Comment: Talk about unmitigate GALL.. Wolfy's back? It is PAST time for the congress and the rest of our representatives to come to grips with reality, the emperor's new clothes are revealed as non existent even as the Democratic politicians still quake with fear over nothing, get over it! The nation as a whole is now completely aware of this incredible debacle - Dems, stop *** footin' start doing your jobs - History will not be kind to you - It is time to GET IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS STARTED NOW! - if you will not do this for our country and our constitution do it for the sake of your legacy and your reelection
Posted By: American_Kid @ 12/02/2007 2:38:48 PM

Comment: What? Wolfy's back?? It is PAST time for the congress and the rest of our representatives to come to grips with reality, the emperor's new clothes are revealed as non existent even as the Democratic politicians still quake with fear over nothing, get over it! The nation as a whole is now completely aware of this incredible debacle - Dems, stop *** footin' start doing your jobs - History will not be kind to you - It is time to GET IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS STARTED NOW! - if you will not do this for our country and our constitution do it for the sake of your legacy and your reelection.
Posted By: urthsong @ 12/02/2007 2:21:46 PM

Comment: Isn't there any way to block appointment with such a level of access? Wolfowitz is dangerous. Where is advise and consent on national security from the Senate?
Posted By: oldgringo @ 12/02/2007 2:19:41 PM

Comment: Enough of this rediculous intellectual patty-cake already! Just get on with the process of IMPEACHMENT of GEORGE W. BUSH and DICK CHENEY so that we can get on with the business of cleaning up the mess that their total insanity has visited upon the whole world!
Posted By: oldgringo @ 12/02/2007 2:16:32 PM

Comment: QUIT WITH THESE KID GAMES OF INTELLECTUAL patty cake and get on with the proceedings to IMPEACH GEORGE W. BUSH and DICK CHENEY, thereby clearing the way to put an end to the idiocy that the FEDERA;L GOVERNMENT of the USA has become!
- Posted By: SteveSOD @ 12/02/2007 16:38:00
  
  Comment: Hey. Dummy. While it takes 50% plus one to impeach in the House, it takes a 2/3 majority in the Senate to remove Bush or Dick from office, and that will NEVER happen. You will never get a single Republican to vote in favor of removing them from office, therefore it CAN'T be done. THINK. THINK. LEARN.
  - Posted By: jdcolv_pol @ 03/12/2008 22:11:18
    
    Comment: While I agree that conviction of Bush and Cheney would be virtually impossible if the House impeached either of them, I have come to the conclusion that they should be impeached irrespemctive of the havoc it would cause. Impeachment would send a signal to the rest of the world that a very significant portion of the United States does not countenance the evil that they do; and if Bush is under impeachment, Secretary Gates and the military might be more apt to require a Congressional resolution for war before they are willing to engage in an attack on Iran. After all, they are subject to penalty for knowingly following illegal orders.
Posted By: Aurelius @ 12/02/2007 2:00:54 PM

Comment: How much does this "part time position" pay?
- Posted By: SteveSOD @ 12/02/2007 16:38:44
  
  Comment: Hm, that comment was supposed to go to oldgringo, not you, Aurelius. Don't know why it ended up here. Sorry.
- Posted By: SteveSOD @ 12/02/2007 16:36:21
  
  Comment: Hey. Dummy. While it takes 50% plus one to impeach in the House, it takes a 2/3 majority in the Senate to remove Bush or Dick from office, and that will NEVER happen. You will never get a single Republican to vote in favor of removing them from office, therefore it CAN'T be done. THINK. THINK. LEARN.
Posted By: TruthSpeaksVolumes @ 12/02/2007 2:00:28 PM

Comment: Since this is an appointed position, let Rice "attempt" to take her stance
that she is not reponsible for the misleading and poor decisons made by the one
of the many leaders of the "bad intel" brigade when she is going to AGAIN rely on Wolfowitz
intel. Perhaps this is the next step in the Bush plan to take credit for going Green by
"recycling" garbage.
Posted By: onward49 @ 12/02/2007 1:40:35 PM

Comment: You got to be s******* me! They must need the scent of each to feed their dilusion.
Posted By: onward49 @ 12/02/2007 1:39:08 PM

Comment: You have to be s******* me. They must need the scent of each other around to function in their bubble.
Posted By: JaundicedEye @ 12/02/2007 12:54:17 PM

Comment: Wolfowitz may not worry about comments from Democrats, but he'll get them. The Bush administration is a joke from start to finish, and this appointment is merely the latest laugh on us.
- Posted By: easyreader @ 12/02/2007 15:27:20
  
  Comment: "Heck of a job, Wolfie"
Posted By: JaundicedEye @ 12/02/2007 12:52:13 PM

Comment: He may not worry about pesky comments from Democrats, but he'll get them. The Bush administration is a joke, and this appointment is merely the latest laugh on us.
Posted By: jeanvaljean @ 12/02/2007 9:31:43 AM

Comment: Well, putting all these critters will sure make it easier for Interpol to arrange for one-ways to the Hague.

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