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Just when you thought President George W. Bush’s other appointments were bad, Bush had to outdo himself by nominating Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz as president of the World Bank. Ironically, at the press conference announcing Wolfowitz’s nomination, Bush seemed to make it overwhelmingly clear that Wolfowitz is not qualified for the post. Let’s take a look at the President’s remarks...
...He’s a man of good experiences.” Last time I checked most people didn’t think Iraq was a very good experience. Let’s not forget what Wolfowitz told Congress and the American people: that Saddam has weapons of mass destruction (false), that we would be greeted as liberators (correct for a week), that we needed fewer troops than we did in Iraq (false), and that fewer troops died in Iraq than actually did (maybe he should take QR 34: “Counting People”). What a resume...
Feith is third-in-command after Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz. President Bush appointed him to the post in July...
...expected that the ever present Elliot Abrams will have a hand in this area from his perch at the National Security Council). The neoconservative lockout at State has led to speculation that the U.N. post might be thrown to them as a sop. The rumor last week was Paul Wolfowitz; the rumor the week before was Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton. There is a tradition of neoconservative eloquence at the U.N.: Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Jeane Kirkpatrick were excellent U.S. representatives during the Soviet era. And an argument can be made that...
...president were serious about spreading liberty, he would make it a top priority to improve our international image, particularly in the eyes of the Arab world. A surprisingly candid report released by the Office of Under Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz in September cited “widespread concern among influential observers that something must be done about public diplomacy,” and lamented that the White House seemed untroubled by these concerns. The report warned that Washington’s “messages should seek to reduce, not increase, perceptions of arrogance, opportunism and double standards...