Paul Wolfowitz Gets Formal Sendoff

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON -- Top Pentagon officials bade an official farewell Friday to Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense who is leaving to become president of the World Bank.

Wolfowitz, 61, often described as a leading architect of the Bush administration's plan for overthrowing the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, said he looks forward to "working on behalf of the world's poor" as head of the Washington-based international economic development agency.
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At a ceremony on a Pentagon parade ground that overlooks the Potomac River, Wolfowitz reviewed a military honor guard and was presented with a Defense Department medal for distinguished public service which cited him as an "internationally recognized voice for freedom."
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"The threatened, the oppressed and the persecuted around the world must know in their hearts that they had a friend in Paul Wolfowitz," Rumsfeld said. "You are one of those rare people who, as the Talmud puts it, would rather light candles than curse the darkness."

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-wolfowitz-farewell,0,3386556.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[MontageOfFreedom]

1. President of the world bank on deception?

He's no longer secretary of fumbled state intelligence and lies, he has to be the president of the world bank in charge of relations.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. He's lucky he didn't get fragged by the honor guard...

I can't imagine he's the most popular guy amongst the troops...:thumbsdown:

[Ernesto]

3. The march of privatization continues

Skip that cultural crap, let's open up some real markets for exploitation!

[unhappycamper]

4. His sendoff should have been in cuffs.

[Turbineguy]

9. Or at least

"Bagged and radished"

[gratuitous]

5. What, no tar and feathers?

Shoulda had me in charge of his send-off. It would have been a real rouser!

[Maat]

6. That's like letting the Wolf guard the Sheep ...

Oh ... it IS letting the Wolf guard the Herd.

The Herd of nations whose officials will meekly go along with whatever.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

7. Farewell, Wolfie, farewell. Thanks for getting us into Iraq, BEE-YATCH.

[Frederik]

8. It is obvious that they

appreciate irony, at lest:

"The threatened, the oppressed and the persecuted around the world must know in their hearts that they had a friend in Paul Wolfowitz," Rumsfeld said. "You are one of those rare people who, as the Talmud puts it, would rather light candles than curse the darkness."

[Roland99]

10. A long walk off a short pier?

[Erika]

11. Did Bush's Globalist lick his comb again prior to pictures

of his send off. What a scrunge.