Paul Reynolds (BBC): Wolfowitz to spread neo-con gospel

Jack Rabbit

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Thu Mar-17-05 09:54 AM
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Paul Reynolds (BBC): Wolfowitz to spread neo-con gospel

From the BBC Online
Dated Thursday March 17

Wolfowitz to spread neo-con gospel
By Paul Reynolds
World Affairs correspondent, BBC News website

By nominating Paul Wolfowitz to be head of the World Bank, President George Bush appears to be sending a message to the world that he intends to spread into development policy the same neo-conservative philosophy that has led his foreign policy.

The nomination of Mr Wolfowitz, currently deputy defence secretary, follows hard on the appointment as UN ambassador of another Bush loyalist, John Bolton, who once remarked that "it wouldn't make a bit of difference" if the UN building in New York "lost ten stories".

It is as if Mr Bush is sending his fighting captains into battle as Nelson once did. They know what to do and can be left to get on with it.

Mr Wolfowitz was one of the brains behind the Iraq war. He called for the removal of Saddam Hussein immediately after the attacks of 11 September 2001, but was overruled in a meeting at Camp David the following weekend.

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NVMojo

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Thu Mar-17-05 09:56 AM
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1. this country and this world will soon be totally run by a mob of crooks

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Emboldened Chimp

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Thu Mar-17-05 04:22 PM
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7. Soon? Aren't we there already?

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Thu Mar-17-05 10:03 AM
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2. How could Wolfowitz possibly be confirmed?

he is the antichrist is France and Germany

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peacetalksforall

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Thu Mar-17-05 10:15 AM
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3. Bringing PNAC and TAKEOVER to the world? Well, world, what are you

Edited on Thu Mar-17-05 10:18 AM by higher class

going to do about it? Be taken over, like the U.S. citizens, Iraqi citizens, Haitian citizens, Afghanistan citizens?

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indepat

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Thu Mar-17-05 10:32 AM
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4. Spreading the neo-con gospel is just the world needs to fight poverty

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Demeter

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Thu Mar-17-05 11:44 AM
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5. Go Down In Flames, Wolfie!

Just another lightning rod for the world's convenience. They are going to shoot you down as a public gesture to your Fearless Leader, since they can't get past his insecurity zone.

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applegrove

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Thu Mar-17-05 02:16 PM
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6. They force people to meet with them. They try and make it look like

their victims do not abhore them.

If Wolfie is out recruiting... then the number of converts must be not working. I mean they have to recycle all their appointees including judges to the Supreme Count.

I wonder how uncomfortable the world will be in the next 4 years... trying to avoid having anything to do with them.

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