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World Bank's Wolfowitz heckled for Iraq role
11 Dec 2006 06:09:18 GMT
Source: Reuters
Iraq in turmoil
by Matthew Bigg
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N10476803.htm
ATLANTA, Dec 11

(Reuters) - Iraq war protesters interrupted a speech by World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz on Sunday calling him a war criminal and saying he lied during the run-up to the war.

Wolfowitz, who was a deputy U.S. defense chief to Donald Rumsfeld and a key advocate of the Iraq war, was in an Atlanta synagogue to speak about the relevance of Africa for Americans.

At one point a man stood up silently at the front of the audience wearing an orange jumpsuit, seen by protesters as symbolic of clothes worn by prisoners at the U.S. jail at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

"You lied about the Iraq war! You are a war criminal!" shouted another woman as she was escorted from the synagogue. Some in the audience booed while a few said silent protests should be allowed.

Outside around 20 protesters held up signs condemning Wolfowitz and the war.

Wolfowitz said his current job prevented him from speaking about Iraq but during questions discussed the World Bank's policy on Iraq and defended Washington's decision to go to war.

"When it comes to Iraq I think it is fair and accurate to say that we did not go to war for oil," he said.

"The essential concern is to make difficult decisions about the security of the United States and that's what they did," he said in an apparent reference to official debate in the run-up to the 2003 war over whether Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

Reconstruction efforts were impeded by the security situation but the World Bank was advising Baghdad on how to distribute its oil wealth, he said at the Ahavath Achim temple.

"The biggest question that Iraq faces in many ways is ... policy decisions about public resource management," he said referring to the country's oil revenue.

Democrats, who will control Congress starting in January, have promised to conduct vigorous reviews of U.S. policy on Iraq, including post-war reconstruction and stabilization.

Wolfowitz, who was appointed president of the World Bank last year, could be called to testify. [NB: the date of his departure is noteworthy--March 2005 during aipac investigation at Pentagon!]

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Why was Wolfowitz lost and forgotten in the memory of America...despite
his major/key role in planning and execution of the illegal Iraq war.

As the Vanity Fair piece "omitted" any mention of this player amongst
the many Neocons interviewed in the VF article, it might be useful to locate
forgotten bits and pieces of Wolfowitz's story as the "blame game" begins to
kick in Washington.
( http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/01/neocons200701?printable=true¤tPage=all )

All the issues about Wolfowitz ought be revisited --starting with his sudden
departure from the #2 Position at Pentagon (3/05) after working as chief architect of
the illegal war on Iraq... which he initiated with Sen Joe Lieberman immediately after 9-11.

He and Feith left the Pentagon as the FBI began closing in on the AIPAC spy
network with Larry Franklin. As James Petras states in his latest book
--there most have been a deal cut with Justice -- for Wolfowitz and friends,
which enabled them to depart so rapidly in March 2005 after Grand Jury had
been called to hear charges against Aipac spy-sters.
Where else but the US would those engaged in sharing classified info with a foreign govt
AGAIN~get exempted from prosecution..?
Here is a small but forgotten bit of chatter on Wolfowitz as President at World Bank where
fraternization verbohten.

March 24, 2005
http://www.counterpunch.org/ferguson03242005.html

Shaha Ali Riza Works at the World Bank
Wolfowitz Dating Muslim Woman

By BARBARA FERGUSON

Here's a bit of news that had Washingtonians choking on their coffee this
morning: President Bush's neoconservative hawk Paul Wolfowitz, the
Pentagon's architect of the US invasion of Iraq, is dating a Muslim!