LET'S REVIEW BROOKS ON WOLFOWITZ

Times columnist, David Brooks, opines on
why Wolfie was canned as prexy of the
World Bank. Main points: the political cul-
ture of our moment plus the fact Wolfie did
not kiss the ass of the department heads &
the many vice presidents spread hither &
yon. As is Brooks want,however, he simply
ignores or distorts any data which could
grant alternatives to his fixed interpret-
ations. Use Wolfies name in public,
he is par boiled and his incompetance is
there for God and man to see. But Paul
is not the thrust of this essay. Davey Boy
is, severe limitations and all.

No single point in Brooks impressions
rings true. e.g. 90% of the staff @ World
Bank are democrats, 90% of "media
types are also dems, 90% of academi-
cians who comment on his job perform-
ance are dems. Wrong, wrong, & wrong.
Even the dumbest of the dumb know
that people who deal in money (as ban-
kers do) are invariably conservative Re-
pugs. Media types are generally 50/50
with few having the moxie to tell the
facts they know to be the truth. Aca-
demicians,too, are about 50/50 over-
all. In some places they are 90% one
way or the other.In some places the con-
servatives are 100% . That never happens
with Dems, wish it did.

Davey the Brookster tells us Wolfie came to
the Bank lugging the heavy baggage of Iraq.
That is inaccurate. Wolfie never considered
it baggage. He believed & still believes the
pre-emtive invasion of that sovereign land,
which did us no harm, was a concept whose
time had come, and Wavey Davey, sorcerer
in charge of Neo-conism, and who is
anchored by scribe status at N. Y. Times,
is side by side with Der Volf on this. Both
now claim it was simply botched by D. C.
bureaucrats.

Brooks doesn't rap about Wolfies' qual-
ifications, or lack thereof, for the position
of W.B. president. No banking experience,
no "how to" on poverty reduction. And his
decided reputation as a lousey , inept
manager. Instead, the Neocon Propagan-
dist, plants a brand new thought: the banks
staff was out to get der Volf because he did
not "woo" them when he took over. I know
a two headed orang utang that fell off his
perch laughing when that bit of idiocy was
laid on him.

Truth is,Wolfies demise as Prexy was inevit-
able due to 3 apointments he made in the first
months he got there. Kevin Kellums, one of
his helpers at the Pentagon, Robin Cleveland
director of security at OMB, Susie Folsome,
Dept .of Institutional Integrity chief. All
plucked from the noble and learned Bush
sect. Brooks never speaks about the unholy
three. Perhaps Davey knows of their rude,
crude abrasive 'tudes toward All members
of the bank. Ms. Cleveland worked for Sen.
Mitch McConnell where she earned the tell-
tail soubriquet"The dragon lady". At least
1/2 dozen department heads and 6 or 7
vice presidents left the bank. The few that
spoke of their resignations put the abusive
demeanor of those charmers, Robie and
and Susie, at the head of the list .

Brooks never wrote or told us a single de-

tail about Wolfie lying when he said he

told Ethics Director Melkart and General

Counsel Roberto Danino (Former prime

minister of Peru) about his plans of the

status of Riza and her raises in salary.Der

Volf said they had approved. Both denied

it. Matter of fact Danino resigned because

of it. We must remember Wolfie headed

a group-think crowd of neocons who acc-

epted lying as a normal way of life, hence

it never phased Davey, a fellow neocon.

Why was Davey silent on the letter Wolfie

circulated that claimed Shengman Zhang &

his wife worked for the bank and approved

Risa working there knowing she and Volfs

liason?.Paul, ever the trickster, skipped the

fact the Bank okayed the Zhangs working

there under certain relevant rules.One of

which was to show proof of marriage.

Doesn't it make a person wonder who is

the bigger culprit: Wolfie for his false-

hoods or Davey for ignoring and cover-

ing them up. The Zhangs' denied it all.

Lastly, Brooks has the insolence to emit

words that he has to know will not hold

water. He claims Risa is not the cause of

Der Volfs downfall. He can't be that stupid,

can he? Danino resigned because of it.

Shengman also. As noted, infra, so did a

dozen or more top execs. The privacy of

the bank was thrown open to radio, T.V.,

the Blogosphere, newspapers and every

cocktail lounge in 3 continents. If it was

not for the stupidity of Wolfie's salacious

situation, his poor management & other

bones of contention would have been

negotiated & settled. How do I know?

Because NO-ONE, on either side, wanted

their dirty linen washed in public. Which

brings us to why not a person wants Der

Volf around them now. When he made a

threat to turn rat & divulge

the skeletons of his erstwhile buddies he

lost the trust of those that didn't like him,

but believed in his omerta. God, he is

such a filthy piece of work.

And Brooksy? He is a hyperbolic, neo-con

justifier. Makes no diff if they lied us into

war, stole our money, given their loyal-

ties to another country, he will defend the

neo-cons. A fair and balanced sentence

for him would be to spend 10 years as

Bill O'Reilly's assistant at Fox news.

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MORE ON BUSHS' LEGACY

This dart takes issue with the sterling civil
rights legacy of our soon to be leaving off-
ice 43rd President.

You have all read or heard of the No Child
Left Behind bill that became law in 2001.
Carries a bundle of controversary, pro and
con. It has always been explained as a fool-
proof step to better schooling for our be-
loved Stumpy Grubbers.

But did you know the No Child law makes
it possible and more than probable, high
schools of the country have been turned into
a harassing recruiting tool of the American
Military? If the school refuses to give the
Pentagon the data that the No Child law re-
quires the schools federal aid can be can-
celled. The data sought includes age, gender
,status of students plus details of their par-
ents work place and their work phone num-
bers. And that's just the beginning.

For more info check your computer for
teacher turned congressman, Mike Honda,
(D.Ca.) who has been looking into the
privacy invasion of the No Child law.

We all know our President's singular devo-
tion to maintain our civil rights so I ass-
ume he merely missed this infringement
before he signed this bill into law.

FOOLED AGAIN

Just read "Scalia and Torture" on Andy
Sullivan's Dirty Dish, 6/20.

He tells us Justice Scalia links the actions
of Jack Bauer, protagonist of the hit show
"24", to what was going on and indeed, is
still happening in various countries that
run off physical agony. I'm talking about
torture that is part of our treatment of
SUSPECTED terrorists. He indicates that
Bauer should not be jailed if he is caught
by suggesting he saved a zillion people &
if a few bad guys were roughed up so be it.

When Scalia first came to the Court he
was hailed as the second coming of Oliver
Wendell Holmes. That was proven wrong
as it turned out his written opinions only
seemed to inspire the likes of Clarence
Thomas.

Connecting "24", which is a fictional, made
for TV playland, to factual wantonness per-
pertrated by us in Gitmo, Abu Ghraib et al.
allows one to realize why 70% of us feel our
country is on the wrong track in general
and jurisprudence in particular.

Scooter, Prison, Now?

Should Mr. Libby go to the Shithouse?
First, the just used coarse phrasing is the
way people who have been there refer to
incarceration in our ever-growing bastiles.

The question is not complicated. It re-
quires only a simple and brief answer.

When it comes my turn to reply I shall
rejoin with my own question which will
double as my retort:

"would YOU go to prison if a jury found
you guilty of 4 of the 5 counts (in your
indictment) after a months' trial in which
you were represented by an extremely
qualified, top drawer legal team?"

MITT (DER DRUMHEIT) ROMNEY

Before the U.S. leaders commenced the
rape of Iraq Rummy, The Dick Cheney,
Condi Mushroom Cloud gave assurances
Iraq had WMD's and they knew exactly
where they were. Bush and the lesser
members of his mob were telling anyone
who would listen that the WMD's were
there and he wasn't going to stand for it.
Bush iterated and reiterated, however,
he had not made up his mind about an
invasion. Since he was shipping a 100,
000 soldiers to neighboring Kuwait no-
one paid much attention to that lie. That
was Fall of 2002 & Jan. & Feb of 2003.

Cut to 2007 and you are aware of the ca-
tastrophe that is Iraq. Also, there are two
presidential nominating races going on
and Mitt Romney, a Repug, seems to be
leading in his heat and that brings us to
the heart of the matter. On June 5, 2007
he goes on Tim Russert's Meet the Press
and in answering a simple query as to
whether Bush's invasion of Iraq was the
right move the ex gov. of Mass. & wanna
be Prexy of the United States answered
with a lie so stupid, so unecessary, so
transparent, so evident that it rocked
Gibraltar. Mitt Romney, ex gov. of Mass.,
leading candidate for the presidency of
these United States. said the war started
because Saddam Hussein wouldn't open
up his country to the IAEA inspectors of
the United Nations who would have ver-
ified that there were no WMD's in Iraq.

But, of course, in Sept. of '02 Saddam
agreed let the Inspectors back in. By
November they were in Iraq with heli-
copters, trucks, equipment galore, 100
inspectors and 150 staff workers. In
his Jan. '03 report Hans Blix, honcho
of the inspectors, admitted they'd al-
ready inspected 230 prime locations
and found no WMD. He continued to
inspect in Jan. & Feb. and when Bush
ordered the inspectors out Blix begged
him for 6 weeks to 2 months to finish
his inspections.

Bush refused. The inspectors left. Bush
invaded.

The purpose of this memo is not only to
call attention to the Romney Faux pas
but to ask where is the lack of dissenters
to this obvious lack of reasoning on the
Gov's part. One can only smile when the
newspaper hack or our t.v. flakes send
forth their conventional wisdoms. God
forbid they would criticize a person who
might go up the ladder.

The only piece that captured the moment
that I found was Krugman in the NYT.

And Mitt wants to be president? Give us
a bloody break.
On June 5

HE MAY BE A NICE GUY----but

George Bush is a world class champion of
the rich, but even the richie rich could see
he was heading for a tree if he continued
to encircle Russia with U.S. missiles.

Ex KGB boss, Putin, spoke out mildly re
Bush's plan (whatever it was supposed to
be) for the past 15 months. Dramatically
he raised the anti at a G-8 gathering in
Prague where Bush and the haves and
wanna-bees had a lesson in how to screw
the world's have nots.

One ominous note on the Putin's "retalia-
tory steps" is China sided with the Russ-
ians voicing a considered opinion that the
U.S. actions could start a "new arms race"

It is truly remarkable the depth of George
Bush's maladjustments. Whatever he puts
his mitts on turns to shit.

Whether a Repug or a Dem is elected in '08
the main goal for the new prexy will be to
rectify this administrations oafish decisions.
Their blunderings have quite literallly hit
the bureaucratic fan.

THE INTERESTING CASE OF
JULIE MacDONALD

Briefly, a few poignant facts about the lady.
She came to the Interior Dept in 2002 as a
senior advisor. In 2004 she was made Dep-
uty Assisant of Interior in the Wildlife,
Fish and Parks Division. Mz. Mac had NO
training in natural sciences for either job.
A wag suggested she may have had a
sponsor ala Paul Wolfie who demanded
progress. He was kidding, of course. Ask
Shaha Ali Risa, she's hip to this noise

Since the Dems won last years election
oversight committees have been a thorn
in the bureaucratic britches. When rel-
evant subpoenas swooped in with queries
that had to be answered our fair damsel
flew the coop. She joined the ex Bushies,
Rummy, Wolfie, Bolton, Perle, Feith who
discovered resignation was the better
part of valor. The Committee wanted to
question Lovable Julie about: 1-viola-
tions of the Endangered species act. 2-
her censoring scientific conclusions 3-
berating and abusing the workers, part-
icularly her own staff. 4- Sen. Wyden
wanted to ask her about complaints of
her undermining the work & integrity
of employees.The Inspector general
of Interior blasted her and wanted to
quetion her about her feeding Fed
documentation to OIL companies and
a property rights group.

It is interesting to note here that in the
80's or 90's Lovable Julie took time out
from ragging fellow workers to write a
book about----you guessed it---- God,
Spirtiualism, tolerance, etc. Many of
her co-employees were skeptical. Can't
see why, can you?

Matt Daly read and wrote about Julie
and Truthout put it on their site.

The policy director of Center For Bio-
logical Diversity hit the nails head :"Ju-
lies reign of terror is finally over." He
added "---endangered species and sci-
entists everywhere are breathing a sigh
of relief"