I would like as much as the next guy see a Bush nominee go down in flames, but I think the Dems will let this one go, as they will the World Bank nominee Wolfer-something anyway. I was thinking can someoneelse besides Bush put up another US nominee for the World Bank Presidency to go up against Wolfer-whatever.
As we all know traditionally WB Presidents have all been from the US and is voted on by the board whose majority is of US members. Has that ever been done or contemplated... before I just now done comtemplated it?
PS And yes you grammar nazi's just, Bring it on!
Jakarta Tenure Offers Glimpse of Wolfowitz
Indonesians Cite Stance on Rights, Reform
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5475-2005Mar27.html
By Alan Sipress and Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, March 28, 2005; Page A12
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- At the height of President Suharto's autocratic rule, then-U.S. Ambassador Paul D. Wolfowitz publicly offered advice in 1989 that could have landed domestic critics in prison, pointedly telling the dictator that his record of rapid economic growth was not enough.
"If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well," Wolfowitz said in May 1989 farewell remarks at Jakarta's American Cultural Center as he prepared to leave Indonesia after three years as ambassador.
This single, unexpected sentence stunned some members of Suharto's inner circle. Wolfowitz's colleagues and friends, both Indonesian and American, said the statement was in line with the U.S. envoy's quiet pursuit of political and economic reforms in Indonesia, and they say he will bring those same values to the World Bank if approved as its new president.
But he has been criticized by Indonesian human rights activists for remaining silent for too long as Suharto was repressing dissent and enforcing harsh military rule in rebellious regions of the country. And many of his admirers in Indonesia have expressed dismay at his later evolution into a chief architect of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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