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To: philv who wrote (22472)	3/5/2005 3:14:17 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) of 81014

Phil > one of your favorites is getting a promotion. He has a solid reputation as a builder of nations. (2) Here's a more complete list of his attributes: ips-dc.org >>Top 10 Reasons Why Paul Wolfowitz Would Make a Good World Bank President By John Cavanagh He would follow in the great tradition of World Bank president Robert McNamara, who also helped kill tens of thousands of people in a poor country most Americans couldn’t find on a map before getting the job. It helps to be a good liar when you run an institution with employees who earn over $100,000 a year to pretend to help billions of people who live on less than $1 a day. With all his experience helping U.S. companies grab Iraq ’s oil profits, he's got just the right experience for doling out lucrative World Bank contracts to U.S. businesses. After predecessor James Wolfensohn blew millions of dollars on "consultations" with citizen groups to give the appearance of openness, Wolfowitz's tough-guy style is just what’s needed to rid the World Bank of those irritating activists. Unlike former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, another one of the four leading candidates, at least Wolfowitz hasn't failed at running a Fortune 500 company. Unlike the Treasury Department’s John Taylor, another leading candidate, at least Wolfowitz doesn't want to get rid of the institution he would head. While earning a University of Chicago Ph.D. , he was exposed to the tenets of market fundamentalism that have reigned at the World Bank for decades. He has experience in constructing echo chambers where only the advice he wants to hear is spoken. He knows some efficient private contractors who build echo chambers for only a few hundred billion dollars (cost plus, of course). He can develop a pre-emptive poverty doctrine where the World Bank could invade countries that fail to make themselves safe for U.S. business, modeled on the U.S. pre-emptive war doctrine he helped craft. <<

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