Wolfowitz vs. the World Bank Board: It's Trench Warfare

[sabra]

Sorry about the source...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,248601,00.html

Wolfowitz vs. the World Bank Board: It's Trench Warfare

Is Paul Wolfowitz under siege? And is his campaign to root out — or at least prune — the corruption that permeates lending at the $200 billion World Bank already a casualty?

Appointed by the Bush Administration to the presidency of the World Bank 19 months ago, Wolfowitz, former U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary and intellectual architect of the war against Saddam Hussein, has been locked in a cold war with his 24-member board of directors, who represent 185 countries. That war is now getting hotter — threatening to stall or even cripple Wolfowitz’s aggressive campaign to root out corruption from the world’s largest and most influential anti-poverty institution.

FOX News has obtained the confidential minutes of a Jan. 8, 2007, meeting at the bank’s Washington headquarters that dramatically illustrates the explosive level of animosity currently focused on Wolfowitz and his management team by the World Bank board. Among other things, the minutes appear to show that almost every aspect of Wolfowitz’s proposals to shift resources at the bank, create new priorities and keep a cap on bank spending face heavy opposition.

...

One longtime bank staffer in Washington says about the Wolfowitz team: “They were basically told that they have no strategy, no objectives and no clear rationale behind any of things they proposed or discussed. This gives you a good sense of the environment.”

[annabanana]

1. Hah! Sounds to me like comb boy went with the cabal's

marching orders, and he's getting bunches of pushback from everyone. Couldn't happen to a more deserving toady.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Somehow the socks are related to this

in some weird "aspens are turning" way

[sabra]

4. you should post pics for those in the dark :-)

[C_U_L8R]

8. Get your socks here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=3087388

[sabra]

9. Thanks. This is the man who heads the WB...

:crazy:

[arikara]

14. What is with that guy?

I never saw these sock pics before. Still not quite as bad as the video of him licking his comb.

[C_U_L8R]

16. agree... licking the comb is just yucky

i don't even want to imagine how bad his head smells
ick.. now i said it, awful image forever seered into my mind

[mallard]

25. Re: wholey socks

That's by far grosser. Maybe those are just his lucky socks, kinda like Teddy Bear - very hard to part with.

[Faygo Kid]

15. Trench warfare - or trench foot? You be the judge.

I've got a pair with one hole in one sock, but I wouldn't keep a pair that has holes in both socks. Of course, I wouldn't have lied to invade Iraq, either.

[Demit]

10. He's going toe to toe with them, I suppose.

[Psephos]

23. LOL n/t

[peacetalksforall]

3. This thread makes me realize that I haven't followed 'ol sock holes

very much.

I can't imagine that a guy who was in on or was the architect of invasion and plundering of an entire country is trying to root out corruption at the World Bank? Did I read this right? A criminal wants some other people to clean up their act? How strange.

Another unbelievable adventure to shake our head at. These good 'ol boys are truly amazing.

Would you have thought that the U.S. could come up with people as criminal as Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfkowitz? And, remember, they are probably grooming others and others are ready to burst out of the gate full of admiration for these creatures and ready to emulate them.

[schmuls]

12. I like your term "unbelievable adventure". This whole world is

having an unbelievable adventure.

[Turbineguy]

5. Nice Fox spin

Wolfy tries to stamp out corruption and runs into trouble. Since it's unlikely most Fox Fans will read below the first paragraph, I would say: "Mission Accomplished!

[JanusAscending]

6. PROOF!!!

that you can't make a purse ...out of a sows ear (or pigs ass in this case)!!!

[Gloria]

7. I posted an article about the problems at the WB a few months ago...

there are very good reasons behind it. Wolfowitz has crapped on everyone there and they ain't taking it anymore!

GOOOOOOD!!!

[Critters2]

11. And no one saw this coming? ! I called this the day he got the job.

One more reason I should be running the world. :)

[cap]

13. everyone at the WB hates Wolfie

they are just very frightened.

[Morgana LaFey]

17. Wolfowitz to "root out corruption"????

You gotta be kidding. I wouldn't have thought he'd the the one to do that. I'd certainly never trust him to do something like that at the corner drugstore, let alone the World Bank. More like insert his own brand of corruption, or at the very least terribly wrongheaded folly.

[sendero]

29. The amount of ridiculous spin..

... Fox puts on every story they report is beyond laughable.

"Rooting out corruption?" Start in your own backyard Wolfowitz.

Notice there are no specifics whatsoever, just a lot of innuendo. Since this is Fox, I believe the exact opposite is true, Wolf is coming in trying to muscle his way, and they're telling him to pack sand.

As well they should. Anyone involved with the launch of the most ill-fated military debacle the US has ever been involved with should be working at 7-11, not at a high level government post.

[tanyev]

18. Guess Bush is going to have to put Bolton in there to get them in line.

:rofl:

[lovuian]

19. This is called a Strike this is a Gandhi strike IMAGINE

the bank workers don't work
the accountants don't work
the IT people don't work
get the drift

and theres where not to work
"I can't get those figures today sir I'm busy"

wolfawitz could fire them all but these people are briliant and know way too much

The Cabal's reputation has gotten out

I think Work stoppage has been going on for sometime
even the Cabal is slowin down

[calimary]

20. He was trying to "root out corruption"? Indeed? With his track record

I'd have assumed it would be more like he WAS the corruption.

His hands are filthy. And horribly bloody. And if he comes from bush-ville, in my view that's enough to render him NOT to be trusted.

[lonestarnot]

21. Woolfieshitz created to much hostility for his socks. Wonder if

the fuckwad gives himself heartburn. hmmmmmf.

[Vidar]

22. Wolfowitz combating corruption is like Bush giving lessons in oratory.

[many a good man]

24. Obligatory comb-sucking pic

Sorry, had to do it.

[133724]

26. The wolf pac plan...

Among other things, the memo — and a sanitized version for broader (but still limited) consumption, which FOX News has also obtained — accuses Wolfowitz of lacking an effective strategy for the bank, or any clear vision of where to take the 61-year-old institution. And it emphatically rejects a Wolfowitz plan to make unspecified cutbacks and “redeployments” in the bank’s 2007-2008 budgets that seem to be among Wolfowitz’s main proposals for action.

One longtime bank staffer in Washington says about the Wolfowitz team: “They were basically told that they have no strategy, no objectives and no clear rationale behind any of things they proposed or discussed. This gives you a good sense of the environment.”

[malaise]

27. According to my WB colleagues

all Wolfowitz is interested in is looting resources from developing countries. That is the Wolf's sole raison d'etre.

[salin]

28. Doesn't suprise me ...

Privatize developing countries natural resources - that was one of he first things they tried to do in Iraq via the CPA.

Glad he is getting a lot of resisitance.