A Wolfowitz comeback?
By Steve Benen Monday Dec 03, 2007 7:15amDon't ever say the Bush administration doesn't take care of its own. Nearly three years after Paul Wolfowitz resigned as deputy Defense secretary and six months after his stormy departure as president of the World Bank—amid allegations that he improperly awarded a raise to his girlfriend—he's in line to return to public service.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has offered Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Iraq War, a position as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board, a prestigious State Department panel, according to two department sources who declined to be identified discussing personnel matters. The 18-member panel, which has access to highly classified intelligence, advises Rice on disarmament, nuclear proliferation, WMD issues and other matters. "We think he is well suited and will do an excellent job," said one senior official.
As Andrew Sullivan asked, "He's advising Condi on WMDs. Curveball wasn't available?"
And in case you're wondering, no, Wolfowitz’s new position "doesn’t require Senate confirmation."
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Frist???
Yes!!!
Proof positive this club is a lifetime membership gig. The only thing that eclipses their gaul is the obvious absence of shame.
C'mon people, what did you expect? Wolfowitz will keep coming back until you drive a wooden stake through his heart.
Now that we have this new information on Iran, they're going to need him if they still want to sell us on attacking Iran. On the other hand now that we do have this new information, maybe they will tell him never mind because now the cat is out of the bag and even he and his spit covered comb can't put it back in that putrid bag.
Our coming attack on Iran will be known by its code name:
Operation Spitcomb.
You gotta admit he is a perfect fit for this administration. He screwed himself out of his last job, lied and cheated. Hell, who wouldn't want to hire a guy like that? Especially for " a prestigious State Department panel" where he would have "access to highly classified intelligence, advises Rice on disarmament, nuclear proliferation, WMD issues and other matters." Sounds like a heck of a job for the Wolf man.
If Curveball wasn't available, they got the next best thing, Spitball.
solid @ 6:
Nah... they'll pick something more nice sounding. After all, they need to sell it to the public:
Operation Brylcreem
Operation Pomade
Operation Dapper Dan
No Bush crony, never, ever left behind. After all, Wolfy did a "heck-uv'-a-job."
Maybe they can find something new for Rummy to f-up too!
Operation Lickity Split
Why oh why oh why don't these people ever go away! Maybe a stake through the heart is what is needed here. They remind of vampires in bad horror movies!
Wingnut Welfare, baby. It's the one government program that's never in danger of having its funding cut.
Israel insists on retaining a mole inside the US Intelligence community.
Dick, who maintains a real hard-on for Mossad, is only too quick to oblige.
He should be in prison with the rest of the regime.
I can just imagine what the director of bureau and budget said when he heard about this: "Oh crap, not again! If Wolfowitz is moving back to The State Department, does that mean we'll have to create another job back at The World Back, to move Shaha Riza back over THERE!? How much is this bozo going to COST US in patronage money, anyway???"
kindanasty's a pknicker too.
Yet we keep hearing all this press about how wonderful she is forming that Mid-East slumber party that seems to have solved nothing.
Pknickers need to learn better bladder control.
Just an FYI or maybe a warning. Bush will hold a press conference at ten eastern time this morning. Think the news about Iran will be mentioned? ;)
The Bush administration is an incestuous circle of corruption, lies and incompetence.
Appointee for Life Paul Wolfowitz sure could use some common sense and an education but even all that would not derail his agenda. His agenda is certainly not mine nor would it be compatible with anyone outside of the Administration. The Constitution has been subverted. We sure could use a few Democrats in Washington. If only we had a democratic Democratic Party in this nation we could watch impeachment hearings on tv.
rk @ 12:
Vampires at least retreat to their coffins during the day (hence Dick Cheney always being in an undisclosed location).
A more accurate example would be zombies ... they look bad, smell bad, exhibit little cerebral function other than a hunger for human flesh, and usually require a bullet to the brain to be put down for good.
wish I could be a fuck-up like that and still get a cushy job.
But that doesn't happen to Joe six-pack, only criminals.
pissed off patricia @ 18:
The official line is what Boy Hadley is pushing - we were right to be concerned, and we've made progress, because it didn't happen.
What Bush will say is another thing entirely. It'll either be something as astoundingly stupid as his World War III comment, or empty tautology.
pissed off patricia @ 18:
Rachel Maddow predicted "compound questions" from the Stenographer Pool today.
Funny. This president has difficulty with compound sentences.
pissed off patricia @ 18:
Thank you, i will read about it later. I can't stand to listen to him talk.
Bushtwerp has had a year to prepare for this one.
lucid fiction.. same with us Joe 12-packs. always the same.
"he’s in line to return to public service"
Be prepared to be "serviced" again people. We are about to be fukd again.
Hey kids. Now you can look forward to giving your life in Iran also.
xoites defends Constitution @ 25:
You're welcome. I can listen to him because I'm looking for the laughs. The rascal never disappoints me. I laugh at his insanity and at his attempts to sell his statements with his dramatics. Then there is always the possibility that he will muck something up majorly. If I listened to him seriously, I would have shot myself a long time ago.
Just goes to show that in Bush's administration you fail your way up.
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It's entertaining to watch FoX news try to spin this Iran story this morning. I imagine it's the same spin bush will give it. The always seem to have a heads up on white house dialog. They are saying while Iran stopped its bomb works, it continued to make missiles and do other things pertaining to weapons. Nice try, but I don't think it'll work because once you have lost your credibility no one cares what else you have to say.
without fail, another scandal surfaces in the republican party, i hesitate to say that because i really don't visualize whatever that is as the republican party. i feel true republicans would be as angry and embarrassed as any of us at what goes on each and every day with these guys. They have pushed the envelope and felt no pain so they continue pushing. The must retire at the end of the day, look at one another and shake their collective heads and say, "Can you believe it, we got away with another one." And they did and do. all they need are a bunch of sheep in the midwest and the south and a lot of good men who do nothing everywhere else. Bush and his cronies have ruined this country in every way possible. Sad to say they will escape unscathed. talk about tephlon.
hmmm, with access to highly classified material that even our congress critters probably won't get to see. ARGH
Here's an idea for the Democrats:
Go on EVERY talk show on television and HAMMER this President for this kind of stuff.
Pound him and the Republicans for allowing Bush to continue this pattern of incompetence and cronyism.
Get the message out. Send out every Democratic Senator, and Representative you can to repeat this.
The problem is that most average American voters don't pay attention to this this stuff.
Say it again. and again, and again. And then say it some more.
Try using some spine this election season.
Desperate men make desperate moves.
Never let it be said that lack of ethics hinders the Repubs support for their own.
wolfie needs to be kicked off the wingnut welfare rolls
I don't even want to picture wolfie coming.
Wow! Just heard RANDI RHODES speak in Michigan.
Give her WE BELIEVE speech a whirl.
http://www.therandirhodesshow.com/live/
Explains the patriotic duty to IMPEACH.
Shadowgm @ 21:
Zombies of the Voudun don't hunger for flesh. They're fed a mild porridge. If they eat anything with flavor, salt, sugar, meat (including human) they would remember they're dead and return to their graves, and god help who triese to stop them.
Stakes do work on vampires, but generally have to be of specific wood like aspen or whitethorn, and struck through the heart, and through their backs into the ground beneath in either one blow, or three, depending on the culture, no more no less, just like the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.
...those who try to stop them.
Flesh eaters are ghouls.
Sunlight wasn't destructive to vampires until the movie Nosferatu Eine Symphonie Des Grauens (1922) dir. by Freidrich Wilhelm Murneau, and starring Max Shreck.
Wolfowitz was second choice.
Chalabi was tied up in Baghdad.
The stake in the heart must not have taken. Somebody needs to try again.
Do you suppose his girlfriend will take him back?
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Wolfowitz is the creme de la creme of the neo-conservatives. The ODB of the neocons.
The shit seed of the Bush Doctrine, the fire starter of Iraq and the first to cut and run. If anyone deserves a Grand Guignol, its Wolfy.
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Not surprising. As long as a member of their administration doesn't break the Shrub's Omerta (code of silence) then they take care of him. That encourages others to honor Omerta as well. The other side of the coin is a serious sliming if you break it, though that is starting to lose steam. And I suspect if the next president is GOP (talk about a doomsday scenario) Wolfie would find a slot in it. That's the GOP principle: run the government as a crime syndicate!
Could it possibly be a case of "keep your enemies closer?"
and the beat goes on. some of these dudes must have some really deep dirt on bush co to be treated the way they are time and time again. loyalty is one thing but this seems like much more than that. we have all seen repeatedly how anyone leaving the bush co circle will offer up some juicy and in some cases incriminating info on the inner workings. so i would guess that wolfy is best kept in the circle to control his out put of such info.
rmjbrown @ 44:
It wasn't a wooden stake, but formica.
I'm totally thrilled that Paul's hanging his comb under Condi's care! I still have him to kick around! Now that he's a dippy-lomat again, we can surely expect him to continue his fine string of failures.
I have to resort to mockery when Wolfie comes up in conversation. The contempt I hold for that person borders on the uncivilized.
Preacher Boob @ 43:
Chalabi's dating kindanasty?
Blue Buddha @ 4:
I think you're right! These people are beyond brazen, there appears to be no limit on the Peter Principle within the Bush crime family.
Paul Wolfowitz is back.
He is so damned stupid he should be considered as potential Republican presidential material.
Seriously, I am constantly amazed at the scale of ineptitude of this administration. Its like this whole f**ckin administration is a comedy sketch written by Terry Southern (author of Dr Strangelove).
Consider the substance abuser, they have to reach bottom before they can recover.
The Bush Administration on the other hand has no bottom. Whenever it appears that they can go no lower; they do. They just keep going lower and lower and then lower some more.
Unfortunately this is not parody; it is all too real.
This is what happens when there are zero consequences for criminal behavior by the people who can enable such things.
The only "public service" this filthy man performs is combing through our wallets and leaving behind his trail of spit.
Curveball was not available ...too funny and too true.
John Dean wrote several articles about the Impeachment of lower level officials in the Bush administration. Now that Condi and Wolfowitz have put Wolfowitz back in the limelight and have no shame. Why not push for the IMPEACHMENT OF WOLFOWITZ so that he can not be recycled into a future administration, let alone this one.
Damn these warmongers have no shame and no conscience.
IMPEACH PAUL WOLFOWITZ!
bilhelm-X @ 53:
IMPEACH PAUL WOLFOWITZ
Read John Deans article about refocusing the Impeachment possibilities
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20061215.html
Bet Wolf Boy knows some dirt on a few peeps. This keeps the gravy train rolling in a bit for him until Bushco is out of office. If ever there was a laughing stock.
The neocons are like vampires. You can't kill them. They go into hiding for a while but then emerge when they need more blood.
What next? Condi to recommend appointing Rove,Bremer, Pearl, Libby, Rummy and Gonzo to positions of "public service"? This is a total disgrace and incomprehensible.
Well, I wish I could say I'm surprised that this fuckwit is coming back from the dead like some friggin vampire with the stake pulled out and a little blood smeared on his lips... Yea, I'd like to say I'm surprised.....But I'm not... I'm sort of surprised it took these Bush assholes this long though... But, in fact, there is a sick symetry to it all.. Condi (hag that she is) setting it all up with a clearly critical job within the state department where he can run his warmongering mouth and schemes again in relative privacy and safety from open examination... Just the thing Cheney among others need as a front and smoke screen to cry wolf and the sky is falling again unless we attack this country or that over vague threats..confirmed by 'our' state department...
What a sick joke....I can see it all now, Cheney or one of his boy-toy zombie followers before some senate panel scaring their pants off with another nuculaar boogieman story, say, about Iran for instance, and citing 'state department analysis' as credible reasoning to crush, kill destroy.. one more time, ad nuseum... And who will be the un-named state department analyst... Yep, you guessed it... Our ol buddy Wolfie... Talk about a self serving scam and racket..... A-NOTHER reason why Condi needs to do hard time along with all the usual suspects in that corrupt administration... She keeps this shit up and she too can win a date with a rope after an international warcrimes trial...
So far I can only see her doing 30 to life for her personal mendacity.... But she's clearly working to earn the big cheese prize along with Chimpy and Darth....
What's the favorite tag line of these fear mongering war freaks??
Oh yea, 'we don't want the next whatever to be a mushroom cloud'... I wish someone would strap Wolfowitz to the nosecone of a minuteman (are they actually still in use???) and shoot his ass into orbit... About 10 to 20,000 miles straight out into space ought to do the trick...(Might need to borrow an old SS something or other from the Russkis to get that much distance.. I'm a little out of date with my old military specs knowledge...) Now that's a mushroom cloud I'd pay money to watch from a safe distance.... We could use some of the ill gotton gains in ol Wolfie's estate to clean up any contamination that might conceivably make its way back to earth on any cosmic breeze....
Might sound scary to some as my private solution to shut up Wolfowitz once and for all, but really, no scarier than the notions and previously implemented ideas floating aound in that numbskulls head...... All fantasy aside, he, has clearly already earned a date with a rope at an international war crimes trial...
Wolfowitz, that fucker... Good people walking around wanting for decent jobs and career opportunities this asshole floats from one critically serious and good playing job to the next fucking up... And the State department mouthpieces still have the brass balls to claim 'we think he's well suited and will do an excellent job'....
An excellent job of screwing something else up... That's about all he's good for, right up there with George W. Bush.. That fuckstick, far as I'm concerned, he isn't even 'well suited' to do meet and greets at a friggin wall-mart...JD
UNTIL WE ARREST AND TRY these criminals for THEIR crimes, WE will always be paying their way. (look forward to it by dragging out YOUR wallet and digging deep.) (or call the Speaker of The House @1-202-225-0100 and DEMAND IMPEACHMENT)
I dunno, seemed appropos for this thread:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrtCawfjDrE
I hope Wolfie treats himself to a new pair of socks.
YS@63;
Yea....Worked fine on Christopher Lee... Not so well on Count Wolfie it seems... too bad....for us and the world....JD
P.S.... Thanks for the memories.... I used to watch all that old Hammer Vampire stuff on saturdays when I was a kid... great stuff, so was Dark Shadows and Barnabus Collins.. .but I digress... Anyway, regards from a ex-Ohio pat to one of the few Texans I know of who seems to have the their heads screwed on straight.. Well, at least a guy with a good sense of humor about it all...JD
This is just another deja vu FUCK YOU AMERICA... all over again.
Jack Damage @ 65:
Did'ja hear they're working on a movie version of Dark Shadows starring Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins?
YS;
Naw....Johnny Depp??? Hmmm, I like the guy and all.. He was good in 21 jump St as a teen cop, and I like most of his movies, but Barnabus Collins??? OH well, I didn't think Cruise would ever work as Lestat but they dyed his hair blond and he ended up doing OK. I will definitely go see a remake of Dark Shadows...I didn't care too much for the movie version from 74 I think... I imagine this one will be edgier. Depp will most likely do OK in the roll, he's got good acting chops, he's just not who I think of visually when I imagine a new Barnabus Collins.....regards; JD
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