Will a British divorcee cost 'Wolfie' his job? (pushed him into Iraq war?)

complete story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=342048&in_page_id=1770

this relationship is interesting....

it looks like no one is sure
:shrug:

from the article:

"She also refused to confirm her marital status - reports of his appointment repeatedly describe Wolfowitz as divorced but The Mail on Sunday has been unable to find any records. Asked if she is separated or divorced, Clare replied: 'That's my business.'"

Who would ever have pegged Wolfy a womanizer???

we should investigate their marital and military status.

and he licks combs too :puke:

Christ! He's even uglier than Richard Belzer.

Strange enough, I hear his daughter is quite hot.

the father......are we every really sure?........lol

Actually, I was going to go further but I just can't. Sorry.

...as being attracted to that greasebag, comb-lickin', sociopathic sack-o-shit??? I am embarassed for my gender. :eyes: :puke: :eyes: :puke:

officially married!

I'm so shocked! She (his wife) is lucky she's alive!

:eyes:

(sarcasm off)

God these hypocrites make me sick!

they are the number one champs at this

Ha ha ha ha ha! Wolfie the WOLF! Oh lord that is priceless. Why haven't we heard of this before?

Michael Jackson, fine. Terri Schiavo, all the time! Robert Blake, BRING IT ON!

But real news? That affects our national security? In this land? Forget it!

:puke:

Why does both he and GW look like some sort of monkey? Of course I hate to give such a bad name to monkeys, but they do have that weird look to them.

the "Comb Licker"? Yeeeeeeeewwwwww!!!!!

that she likes about him? It was no secrect that his GF was arab and worked for the world bank. But why has it been kept hidden that he is still married? Gotta love those moral values them Mepublicans so cherish.

Whose grandfather was arab? Paul Wolfowitz? I thought he was Jewish.

I've read about this scandal before. There was a thread about this a few months ago, but it seemed to vanish pretty quickly.

This time, it's bigger news.

Heh heh (rubs hands together). Love it.:smoke:

to see what she looked like (I mean if she's literally in bed with The Comb, sheesh). I found a picture linked to Free Republic; when I clicked on it I came up with a Free Republic message saying the link had been pulled. Just interesting. I wonder how nasty they had been or what the deal was...

do a search on Wolfie for the past six months and you should find it.

and why it was pulled? Just curious. Would the freepers not like her, or were they saying bad things about The Comb?

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According to the article, they are at least "separated" but it was this bit that piqued my interest:
Downing Street 'furious' at nomination

Wolfowitz became known around the world as one of the fiercest proponents of invasion of Iraq. The Mail on Sunday has learned that Downing Street is "furious" about his nomination, fearing his hardline attitude could alienate large sections of the international community.

But it is his tangled private life that could stop him taking up the World Bank post.

Critics say it would be impossible for Wolfie - as he is nicknamed by Bush - to make independent decisions when his lover, who works on Middle Eastern and North African issues, is so committed to overthrowing Middle Eastern regimes.

"His womanising has come home to roost," a Washington insider said. "Paul was a foreign policy hawk long before he met Shaha but it doesn't look good to be accused of being under the thumb of your mistress."

He's certainly no Rhett Butler, as she is no Scarlett O'Hara, herself!
There's someone for everyone, I suppose:

Wonk Love

Let's go skiing on each other's nose ...

I resemble that remark! :cry:

And women claim to have taste.

Wolfashitz deserves a full dose of karmic retribution.

JB

going to try to loot it to whatever degree they can get away with.

inability to keep Lil' Wolfie in his pants. History has shown this particular motive to be a recurrent theme...Yuck.

said he has Secret Service or some kind of security detail around him at all times, even when he's spending the night as Shaha's house guest. Apparently people in the neighborhood are talking alot about it since there are sedan-loads of guys parked on their street wearing dark glasses and talking into their wristwatches.

to fully appreciate them.

Immediately before joining the World Bank Shaha Riza worked at the US National Endowment for Democracy where she set up and led the Endowment’s Middle East Programs.

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a private, nonprofit organization created in 1983 to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts. The Endowment is governed by an independent, nonpartisan board of directors. With its annual congressional appropriation, it makes hundreds of grants each year to support prodemocracy groups in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union.
http://www.ned.org/about/about.html

..... in one of his major foreign policy addresses, President Reagan proposed an initiative "to foster the infrastructure of democracy--the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities--which allows a people to choose their own way, to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means." He noted that the American Political Foundation would soon begin a study "to determine how the U.S. can best contribute--as a nation--to the global campaign for democracy now gathering force." Delivered to a packed Parliamentary chamber in Britain's Westminster Palace, the Reagan speech would prove to be one of the central contributions to the establishment of a U.S. democracy foundation.

The American Political Foundation's study was funded by a $300,000 grant from the Agency for International Development(AID) and it became known as "The Democracy Program." Its executive board consisted of a broad cross-section of participants in American politics and foreign policy making. The Democracy Program recommended establishment of a bipartisan, private, non-profit corporation to be known as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

Getting Organized
On the day the Senate approved the conference report, articles of incorporation were filed in the District of Columbia on behalf of the National Endowment for Democracy. The Endowment was established as a nonprofit organization under section 501c (3) of the Internal Revenue Service Code.

NED's original Board of Directors, limited to three three-year terms of service, included party activists, representatives of the U.S. labor, business and education communities, foreign policy specialists, and two members of Congress. Following a brief stint by Congressman Fascell as acting chairman, the Endowment appointed as its first permanent Chairman John Richardson, a former Assistant Secretary of State with many years of involvement in private organizations involved in international affairs. For President, the Board chose Carl Gershman, previously the Senior Counselor to the U.S. Representative to the United Nations.

NED's creation was soon followed by establishment of the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), and the National Republican Institute for International Affairs (later renamed the International Republican Institute or "IRI"), which joined the Free Trade Union Institute (FTUI) as the four affiliated institutions of the Endowment. (FTUI was later reorganized as the American Center for International Labor Solidarity, also known as the “Solidarity Center.”) This structure had been recommended by the Democracy Program for three basic reasons: first, because of the wide recognition of the parent bodies of these new entities as national institutions with a public character, an important asset for this non-governmental foundation; second, because they represent sectors of political life fundamental to any strong democracy; and third, to insure political balance. The Endowment would serve as the umbrella organization through which these four groups and an expanding number of other private sector groups would receive funding to carry out programs abroad.
http://www.ned.org/about/nedhistory.html

Since its inception, the NED and its affiliates have been mired in controversy in the US itself as well as abroad. Amongst its strongest supporters in the US is the Heritage Foundation of Washington DC, a conservative think tank, which played an active role in influencing the policies of the Reagan and Bush Administrations.
http://www.saag.org/papers2/paper115.html

Remarks by the President at the 20th Anniversary of the National Endowment for Democracy
United States Chamber of Commerce
November 6, 2003
Securing democracy in Iraq is the work of many hands. American and coalition forces are sacrificing for the peace of Iraq and for the security of free nations. Aid workers from many countries are facing danger to help the Iraqi people. THENATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY IS PROMOTING WOMEN'S RIGHTS, AND TRAINING IRAQI JOURNALISTS, AND TEACHING THE SKILLS OF POLITICAL PARTICIPATION. Iraqis, themselves -- police and borders guards and local officials -- are joining in the work and they are sharing in the sacrifice.

This is a massive and difficult undertaking -- it is worth our effort, it is worth our sacrifice, because we know the stakes. The failure of Iraqi democracy would embolden terrorists around the world, increase dangers to the American people, and extinguish the hopes of millions in the region. Iraqi democracy will succeed -- and that success will send forth the news, from Damascus to Teheran -- that freedom can be the future of every nation. (Applause.) The establishment of a free Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a watershed event in THE GLOBAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION. (Applause.)
<snip>
The advance of freedom is the calling of our time; it is the calling of our country. From the Fourteen Points to the Four Freedoms, to the Speech at Westminster, America has put our power at the service of principle. We believe that liberty is the design of nature; we believe that liberty is the direction of history. We believe that human fulfillment and excellence come in the responsible exercise of liberty. And we believe that freedom -- the freedom we prize -- is not for us alone, it is the right and the capacity of all mankind. (Applause.)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/11/20031106-2.html

including Bradley (arms) and Scaife (oil), plus Smith Richardson (Vicks Vaporub??).

http://web.archive.org/web/20030722145959/http://mediatransparency.org/search_results/info_on_any_recipient.php?251

very interesting.

Those far-right organizations all seem to be listed as "charities."
http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/

Under the Internal Revenue Code, all section 501(c)(3) organizations are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office. Contributions to political campaign funds or public statements of position (verbal or written) made on behalf of the organization in favor of or in opposition to any candidate for public office clearly violate the prohibition against political campaign activity. Violation of this prohibition may result in denial or revocation of tax-exempt status and the imposition of certain excise tax.
http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/article/0,,id=120703,00.html

We need the Government Accountability Office (GAO)
to go and kick some thieving murdering elephantine butt.
:kick:

if they know it then Wolfawitz hasn't been hiding his feelings!!!

Is he still? Probably so.

And, further, this woman could be a foreign agent of some kind. Dayum!!

Have they traveled together in the Middle East?

This is beginning to sound like a Ken Follett novel.

I am speechless. I can't get my mind around it.

Because Wolfie's playing footsie, thousands of coalition forces and innocent Iraqis have been killed? This is some sort of Strangelove-ian farce. Except that the cemeteries are filled with casualties of the farce.

Men's d**ks sure get us in a lot of trouble in this world.

Let's declare a National Keep it in Your Pants Year -- one year without war, strife, scandal caused by world-leader-hanky-panky!!

WOLFIEGATE !!!!

Hey, Baby! What war do you want us to get into? I've got the President's ear ... come on, Baby, who do you want us to invade?

oh you studly studly, manly man, you! you warmongering, looting, lying hunka- hunka burning, ( and bombing and pillaging ) neoconly love!

:puke:

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just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...........

That can get you fired in some circles. This needs out there. Mr. Family Values is doing a chick on the side. I'm glad to hear that the 1500 dead soldiers were killed for love, rather than 'freedom'.

I'm sure that means something to somebody....but I'm guessing your average street prostitute could carry the same title with equivalently attained job skills....

Now THAT's some SPIN!!!

it's all so, so, so... what's the right word??? so ICKY!!!

And what exactly do they do? Is it like a personal shopper, picking out different styles of gender for someone?

This thread is a hoot, even the comblickers up top!

I'll take anything, even this, to keep Wolfie from the job. Now, what will get him completely out of Washington?

However, Wolfowitz's only comment on the complaints has been a terse statement issued through a Pentagon spokesman. He said: "If a personal relationship presents a potential conflict of interest, I will comply with bank policies to resolve the issue."

Hmmmm..... does that mean he will fire her? Or does it mean he'll turn down the job? Must mean one or the other, right? My guess is the former.

I'd love to see this slime ball take a fall.

After all, he's one of bush's neocons....they change any policy they don't like, but only as it applies to them. "Comply" only comes in AFTER he changes the policy to his liking.

:kick:

on every Defense Department or defense contractor job application, (or at least in security clearance questionnaires) they specifically ask what relationship(s) a person might have to foreign nationals, people who from "other" countries, etc. Things like that. They are the kinds of information that can be used in a couple of ways: One, one can be blackmailed if one were to be taken hostage or found in a compromising situation, and two, they could infer undue influence (exactly like the Wolfowitz scenario). The bottom line is, they are sometimes automatic no-gos depending on the strength of the relationship. And yet this guy is not only an Admin neocon, but also getting installed as head of the World Bank (after he did such a great job with the Bu$h Administration, he deserves a promotion, don't you think?)

It's just such an odd job description ...for a bank employee, also. Guees I could understand it somehow meaning something within the medical field....

why haven't they deemed this stuff worthy of publication?

Seems to me that Wolfie, Dick, and Co. did not need much "pushing"!

Welcome to the real world, Paul. Remember, "character counts"!

Digby weighs in on this
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2005_03_20_digbysblog_archive.html#111179303102019047

To impress his girl? That is wild, but knowing how strange much of the Bush admin is, I wouldn't be really surprised

....the other kind of "Bush"....it's always those damn women and their satanic ways, leading men to sin....

:eyes:

I am SO tired of our U.S. press always keeping us in the dark.