Can’t beleive that I have been traveling for a week and you guys don’t keep up. Guppy favorite Paul Wolfowitz is now leaving the Defense Department. Hardliner Bolton is going to the UN. the Neo Cons are disbursing, and ready to spread some kick butt right wing philosophy to all corners of the earth. One can only imagine private meetings with Kofi and Bolton. Bolton has to scare the crap out of him. And Wolfowitz? Can you imagine some Aid application from a corrupt government? Can you imagine the conditions attached to new loans? Massive leverage there. The second Bush administration certainly has a different agenda!
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.
His role is likely to be one of spreading the word that the ideas that have driven neo-conservatism are just as relevant in the World Bank as in diplomacy
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 [of 38] storeys”.
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.
However, his view did prevail in due course.
He has also been one of the leading thinkers in the administration calling for the spread of democracy in the Middle East and he did not shrink from the need, as he saw it, of waging war if necessary. He saw Iraq as a test bed for this.
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John Bolton Likely to Face Heated Confirmation Hearing in US Senate
By Leta Hong Fincher
Washington
16 March 2005
John Bolton is expected to be confirmed as the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, although analysts say he will likely face heated questions from Democratic Party lawmakers in the U.S. Senate hearings. One of the Bush administration’s most prominent conservatives, the tough-talking Mr. Bolton has been a severe critic of the international body.
John Bolton, who has been the State Department’s arms control chief, is not known for mincing words.
Two years ago in Seoul, on the eve of six-nation talks about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, Mr. Bolton denounced North Korean leader Kim Jong-il as, in his words, a “tyrannical dictator”.
“While he lives like royalty in Pyongyang, he keeps hundreds of thousands of people locked in prison camps, with millions more mired in abject poverty. For many in North Korea, life is a hellish nightmare,” said Mr. Bolton.
In response, the North Korean government called Mr. Bolton “human scum” and refused to accept him as a member of the U-S negotiating team.
As to the United Nations, Mr. Bolton was widely quoted as saying in 1994 that if the UN secretariat building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.
Supporters say that Mr. Bolton will be a strong voice for reform at a time when the United Nations has begun to reform itself.
