Wolfowitz to head US arms panel

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Paul Wolfowitz, the former president of the World Bank, is to head a new US advisory panel on arms control and disarmament, the US state department has said.

Wolfowitz will head the International Security Advisory Board, which gives the state department advice on arms control, disarmament and global security.

The move marks a return to government for Wolfowitz, a key figure in the Bush administration and one of the main architects of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.

He resigned from the World Bank last year after it emerged he had helped win his partner a promotion and pay rise within the bank.

Scandal

The controversy sparked anger among many of the bank's staff and led to senior staff writing to its board complaining that the leadership crisis had undermined their work in combating corruption.

The scandal also damaged US relations with Europe, which led calls for his dismissal.

Wolfowitz, currently a defence and foreign policy studies scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think-tank, served as deputy secretary of defence during much of Bush's presidency.

In his new position he will advise on several high-profile issues, including pending nuclear deals with India and North Korea and offers to negotiate with Iran over its controversial nuclear programme.

He will report to Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state.




this is bad news for america, wolfowitz is a major criminal

damn that suxx ass... Things keep getting worse & worse..

Why would they hire this idiot to monitor arms? Hopefully he'll be stationed in a hot spot and get a bullet in the back of the head.

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Originally Posted by killerweed420

Why would they hire this idiot to monitor arms? Hopefully he'll be stationed in a hot spot and get a bullet in the back of the head.

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Probably because he's a good liar. Being the former president of a world organisation who did a great job fucking the third world under the promise of benevolence -makes me think his agenda is not the elimination of arms threats, but to help defence companies prop up the US economy whilst at the same time doing his best not to let the weapons end up in the hands of terrorist; and when they evitably do work out a preemptive smoke screen so that no-one knows it was an American defence company who made the guns.

Upcoming citizen disarmament, legal government spying on citizens without a warrant, government-funded paramilitary organizations... further erosion of our rights... sounds like an upcoming police state. Oh, but of course, it's all to keep us safe, and has nothing to do with power. I guess some people will always find a way to justify their loss of liberties (the War on Terror), because they don't want to face it and realize that it's all about power.