Wolfowitz pleads to keep job at World Bank ("begged")

[rodeodance]

Source: afp

Wolfowitz pleads to keep job at World Bank

by Veronica Smith 35 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) -World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz on Tuesday begged the lender's board to let him keep his job, promising changes in his management style in the wake of a damaging favoritism scandal.


The board of executive directors was to continue deliberations on his fate Wednesday, after the United States reiterated its support for the embattled bank chief.

However, a White House spokesman entertained "all options," an opening interpreted by the US media as a sign of his imminent departure.

According to a hearing transcript released by his lawyer, Wolfowitz, 63, answered allegations he had put his "personal interests" above the rules, risking the very mission of the development lender.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070516/bs_afp/worldbankwolfowitz;_ylt=Ate793QxYnEPdbwEWQ2h5bms0NUE

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this would be a blow to the WH-!! but not counting the chickie yet!

[sam sarrha]

1. I love the sound of NeoCon Humiliation in the Morning

:toast::bounce: :nopity: :kick: :loveya: :hug: :headbang: :woohoo: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :popcorn:

[Cobalt-60]

2. It was the comb in he mouth thing

Oh he's totally unworthy of the position, of course.
But that greasy comb in the mouth put off everyone on earth.
I speak for all of us - except the US backwash, of course - when I thank
Wolfie for the opportunity to be rid of him.

[xchrom]

3. please! please! please! -- i'll be good from now on -- I promise!

oh yeah -- they're buyin that from wolfowitz.:eyes:

[truthisfreedom]

4. What a flippy-floppy administration we have. They'll throw ANYBODY to the wolves.

They always play this game of "We'll stick with you to the end" and then cut the lifeline while looking the other way.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Wolfowitz is trying to drag this out as long as possible to June 1 to get his

contractual bonus.

[BlueManDude]

6. Jeeze, it's not like he can't be an "analyst" at FoxNews or a "Fellow" at the Heritage Foundation.

[Barrett808]

17. I look forward to the the day we are free of the neocons, and they're holed up at AEI

Fending off subpoenas and warrants.

[Berry Cool]

7. If you think that's bad, then he probably had to go back home

and beg his girlfriend to take him back in, despite the fact that she'd dumped all his stuff on the lawn and changed all the locks after he blamed everything on her and her wrathful temper.

Something tells me they did NOT share a bed last night.

[Demeter]

8. Are There Any Adults In the Room?

This is embarrassing!

[tanyev]

9. Let's see some tears.

That always helps.

[City Lights]

10. Show them your holey socks, Wolfie!

Maybe they'll have pity for you...:rofl:

What a cry baby.

[tabasco]

11. What an embarrassment for the United States.

He only wants to stay until June 1 so he gets his $400k payday.

The greedy neocons are an utter embarrassment to this country.

[bdamomma]

12. if I was on the panel of the World Bank I would throw his a$$ out

he has damaged the reputation of the World Bank.

[bobbie]

24. Do you guys know what the world bank is?

It's one of the most vile institutions in the world.
Worse than the worst loan shark.
Therefore Wolfie is perfectly suited for it.

http://www.gregpalast.com/the-globalizer-who-came-in-from-the-cold/
Why is everybody talking like it's a great place?

"Each nation’s economy is individually analyzed, then, says Stiglitz, the Bank hands every minister the same exact four-step program.

Step One is Privatization - which Stiglitz said could more accurately be called, ‘Briberization.’ Rather than object to the sell-offs of state industries, he said national leaders - using the World Bank’s demands to silence local critics - happily flogged their electricity and water companies. “You could see their eyes widen” at the prospect of 10% commissions paid to Swiss bank accounts for simply shaving a few billion off the sale price of national assets.
...
At this point, the IMF drags the gasping nation to Step Three: Market-Based Pricing, a fancy term for raising prices on food, water and cooking gas. This leads, predictably, to Step-Three-and-a-Half: what Stiglitz calls, “The IMF riot.”

The IMF riot is painfully predictable. When a nation is, “down and out, takes advantage and squeezes the last pound of blood out of them. They turn up the heat until, finally, the whole cauldron blows up,” as when the IMF eliminated food and fuel subsidies for the poor in Indonesia in 1998. Indonesia exploded into riots, but there are other examples - the Bolivian riots over water prices last year and this February, the riots in Ecuador over the rise in cooking gas prices imposed by the World Bank. You’d almost get the impression that the riot is written into the plan.
...
Stiglitz is particularly emotional over the WTO’s intellectual property rights treaty (it goes by the acronym TRIPS, more on that in the next chapters). It is here, says the economist, that the new global order has “condemned people to death” by imposing impossible tariffs and tributes to pay to pharmaceutical companies for branded medicines. “They don’t care,” said the professor of the corporations and bank loans he worked with, “if people live or die.”

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Maybe ole Wolfowitz hasn't put enough savings in his 401K yet and needs to continue collecting

his $302,470 a year from the World Bank (tax free)!

[Doremus]

14. You have to admire the World Bank's staff!

United in their disapproval of Wolfowitz, they are forcing the board to stand firm.

If only we could have a smidgeon of that solidarity .... :(

[go west young man]

15. Kick the bum out. Kick him out for all the dead Iraqi people.

Kick him out for all the war crimes. And then prosecute the whole Bush administration. And don't give him a penny. He's a criminal.

[DuaneBidoux]

16. Neocons: begging for mercy, dolling out retribution to the weak and vulnerable.

[leftwingnut]

18. After reading that article I'm convinced that Wolfie is gone!!

Sounds like there would be to much heat in the World Bank if he stays.

He's toast.

:bounce:

[Javaman]

19. Is this part of dickawitz effort to "fuck" them?

I vaguely recall dickawitz sayings something about "if they fuck with me I will fuck them right back" or something along those lines.

I guess his idea of fucking is begging...

give a whole new spin on his relationship with is girlfriend.

:rofl:

[whistle]

20. Dump Wolfowitz from the World Bank now!

....no more neocons in positions of power.

[bemildred]

21. Germany steps up pressure on Wolfowitz

WASHINGTON/BERLIN (Reuters) - Paul Wolfowitz made an emotional appeal to stay on as World Bank president, but Germany stepped up pressure on him to resign, saying he would not be welcome at a forum the bank is holding next week in Berlin.

Wolfowitz made the appeal in a last pitch before the bank's board decides whether he has the credibility to lead the institution set up to help fight poverty.

The U.S. government failed to rally support among its key allies for a strategy aimed at saving Wolfowitz his job, even as a bank panel found that he violated ethics rules in pushing through a promotion and pay rise for his bank-employee companion Shaha Riza.

"He would do the bank and himself a great service if he resigned," German Development Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, one of Wolfowitz's strongest critics, told reporters. "It would be the best thing for all concerned."

http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL1640964620070516?pageNumber=1

[Eugene]

22. ...and please don't come to Berlin next week.

Wolfie is a pariah.

Alternate Reuters headline: Germany slams Wolfowitz as bank board meets

[gauguin57]

23. I hope that, if fired, Wolfie sings like a birdie about PNAC, Iraq war planning, etc.

He's a petulant child, and if pissed off by being shoved aside, perhaps he'll write a book that blows the lid off the BushCo bulls***.

Or maybe he'll count his loot and retire to the Grand Caymans.

[Frank Cannon]

25. "Begged. Like a dog."

Man, I would have given anything to have seen that.

[Sequoia]

26. No, you have holes in your socks. Can't you afford good socks.

We can't have someone in this postion going to a holy place and taking off his shoes only to have holes in their socks. Insulting. Oh, and spitting on your comb....nasty. What other creepy habits do you have?