Paul Wolfowitz is one of those distinguished individuals whose name often appears in the same sentence with the phrase "one of the architects of the Iraq war." His punishment reward for his sterling service in that area was to be appointed president of the World Bank, a gig he managed to screw up by become embroiled in controversy when he gave his girlfriend a high paying job. So I guess this shouldn't be a big surprise.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has offered Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Iraq War, a position as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board, a prestigious State Department panel, according to two department sources who declined to be identified discussing personnel matters. The 18-member panel, which has access to highly classified intelligence, advises Rice on disarmament, nuclear proliferation, WMD issues and other matters. "We think he is well suited and will do an excellent job," said one senior official.
The position he would fill was vacated by Fred Thompson who left to sleepwalk through his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. So how hard can it be?
Still, one wonders how badly these people have to screw up before they become too radioactive for a move like this to even be considered.
Hat-tip to Laura Rozen.
Wolfowitz, now a visiting scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, will replace former senator Fred Thompson, who quit over the summer to run for president.
I think that's one of the funniest sentences I've ever read ...
pogge, as a visiting scholar at the not-all-that-conservative POGGE Institute, I would like to know why you don't do this for your visiting scholars. Like, where are the well-paid multi-member advisory panels that we all deserve to be appointed to?
Sheesh. Wolfowitz and his ilk: these guys are the undead, eh?
Hey, I'm still working on scoring my own appointment. The rest of you will have to look after yourselves.
And here I thought neo-cons were losing their positions of influence.
When your whole shtick is on ignoring the will of the people, and getting multi-million bonuses for crashing a company against the rocks as its CEO, giving a toxic failure like Wolfowitz another cushy job at the tax-payers' expense isn't any big deal.
We don't matter.
Failing upward has been a signature of Bushco.