"If they fuck with me or Shaha, I have enough on them to fuck them too."

[Czolgosz]

Angry Wolfowitz in four-letter tirade
By Richard Adams for Guardian Unlimited

An angry and bitter Paul Wolfowitz poured abuse and threatened retaliations on senior World Bank staff if his orders for pay rises and promotions for his partner were revealed, according to new details published last night.

Under fire for the lavish package given to Shaha Riza, a World Bank employee and Mr Wolfowitz's girlfriend when he became president, an official investigation into the controversy has found that Mr Wolfowitz broke bank rules and violated his own contract – setting off a struggle between US and European governments over Mr Wolfowitz's future.

Sounding more like a cast member of the Sopranos than an international leader, in testimony by one key witness Mr Wolfowitz declares: "If they fuck with me or Shaha, I have enough on them to fuck them too."

The remarks were published in a report detailing the controversy that erupted last month after the size of Ms Riza's pay rises was revealed. The report slates Mr Wolfowitz for his "questionable judgment and a preoccupation with self-interest", saying: "Mr Wolfowitz saw himself as the outsider to whom the established rules and standards did not apply."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/imf/story/0,,2079877,00.html

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. I wonder how he feels...

now that his lover dumped him.

[firefox_fan]

2. Oh well, he can always practice abstinence. Works great, apparently.

[damntexdem]

12. Yeah, it makes the heart go founder.

I didn't know that it happened. Oh, that poor baby! LOL!!!!!!

[SoCalDem]

21. and he can lick and fondle

his comb:)

[firefox_fan]

24. Hmmmmmmmm....

Is that a fetish of his?

[SoCalDem]

6. she dumped him??? when did that happen? n/t

[hlthe2b]

7. I don't know that she has dumped him...

There was a parody written about it on MSNBC.com by the humorist Andy Borowitz that some may mistaken as serious "reporting", but I haven't seen any other reference to it. Did I miss it?

[hlthe2b]

22. Are you basing this on"Wolfowitz's Friend Says 'I Quit' ...?

It was SATIRE....(though one could only assume imminently that life might well replicate fiction)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18554065/site/newsweek/
WEB-EXCLUSIVE SATIRE
By Andy Borowitz
Special to Newsweek
Updated: 9:36 a.m. MT May 8, 2007

May 8, 2007 - In yet another setback for the embattled World Bank president, Paul Wolfowitz’s girlfriend, Shaha Riza, announced today that she was resigning as Wolfowitz’s girlfriend, “effective immediately.”

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

28. I've no idea.

People were talking about it a few days ago here as if it were true.

[Jim Warren]

3. Sounds like a basic admission of guilt

Who's the dirtiest?

[lebkuchen]

29. sounds like a gang member

[hatrack]

4. Statesmanlike, huh?

:eyes:

[Warpy]

5. Woflowitz is also the architect of the Iraq war

My only question is how such an obviously worthless human being, a slob, someone with demonstrably limited intelligence, could have made it to the top.

If ever that is investigated fully, it will be a true study in corruption.

[Lasher]

17. Most people at the top didn't get there by being smart.

[Warpy]

30. No, they got there by being dishonest and ruthless

[eleny]

20. He's cunning

[porphyrian]

8. Oh, please let that happen...

Let the snakes kill each other.

[DeepModem Mom]

9. This guy is nuts. nt

[RufusTFirefly]

10. Time to oust Wolfowitz and replace him with someone more suave and urbane...

[hlthe2b]

13. cooperative, collegial, compassionate, collaborative...

thy must have a milk mustache...


Yeah, he comes to mind.... :sarcasm:

[damntexdem]

11. Sounds like he should resign from the Bank and go join a clusterf__k.

But one does wonder if some of the 'theys' on which he has 'enough' include Dubya and Rove -- is that why they continue to support him?

[progressoid]

14. I see that this administration brought back honor and dignity as promised.

[whistle]

15. Can Paul Wolfowitz make threats like that and not end up in prison?

....These neocon GOP executives sure use "fuck" a lot. Remember Cheney's response where he told a ???"Go fuck yourself!"? Remember when Dick Cheney used the term?

<snip>
Cheney Dismisses Critic With Obscenity
Clash With Leahy About Halliburton
By Helen Dewar and Dana Milbank

Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, June 25, 2004; Page A04


A brief argument between Vice President Cheney and a senior Democratic senator led Cheney to utter a big-time obscenity on the Senate floor this week.

On Tuesday, Cheney, serving in his role as president of the Senate, appeared in the chamber for a photo session. A chance meeting with Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (Vt.), the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, became an argument about Cheney's ties to Halliburton Co., an international energy services corporation, and President Bush's judicial nominees. The exchange ended when Cheney offered some crass advice.

"Fuck yourself," said the man (Dick Cheney) who is a heartbeat from the presidency.

Leahy's spokesman, David Carle, yesterday confirmed the brief but fierce exchange. "The vice president seemed to be taking personally the criticism that Senator Leahy and others have leveled against Halliburton's sole-source contracts in Iraq," Carle said.
<MORE>

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3699-2004Jun24.html

[salinen]

16. I'm a sucker for a good love story

Paul + Shaha = true love

[90-percent]

18. Wolfowitz marital status?

Is he married or single or what? And what was his marital status when he was getting his girlfriend her really well paying job?

-85% Jimmy

She musta found a comb licker that drives a Corvette?

[SoCalDem]

23. married.. but it's ok if he's an adulterer.. he's a republican man with good christian values n/t

[geardaddy]

27. I think he's Jewish.

Either way he's representing "christian values" of the * admin.

[Stinky The Clown]

19. Tony? Tony Soprano ...... izzat you?

[Lil Missy]

25. Oh, fire the rat bastard already! I can't stand the whining anymore!

Go talk/whine to unca dickie already!

[RufusTFirefly]

26. Face it, Wolfie: Just like your comb...

... you've been licked.

[krkaufman]

31. Sounds like S.O.P. for Bushies. Recall this Rove outburst ...

... documented by Ron Suskind in his January 2003 Esquire article, 'Why Are These Men Laughing?'

Eventually, I met with Rove. I arrived at his office a few minutes early, just in time to witness the Rove Treatment, which, like LBJ’s famous browbeating style, is becoming legend but is seldom reported. Rove’s assistant, Susan Ralston, said he’d be just a minute. She’s very nice, witty and polite. Over her shoulder was a small back room where a few young men were toiling away. I squeezed into a chair near the open door to Rove’s modest chamber, my back against his doorframe.

Inside, Rove was talking to an aide about some political stratagem in some state that had gone awry and a political operative who had displeased him. I paid it no mind and reviewed a jotted list of questions I hoped to ask. But after a moment, it was like ignoring a tornado flinging parked cars. "We will fuck him. Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever fucked him!" As a reporter, you get around—curse words, anger, passionate intensity are not notable events—but the ferocity, the bellicosity, the violent imputations were, well, shocking. This went on without a break for a minute or two. Then the aide slipped out looking a bit ashen, and Rove, his face ruddy from the exertions of the past few moments, looked at me and smiled a gentle, Clarence-the-Angel smile.

Ah yes, the White House overfloweth with honesty and integrity. Thank you, G.W.B.