Top 10 Reasons Why Paul Wolfowitz Was a Great World Bank President

[BlooInBloo]

Heh-heh!

http://www.alternet.org/story/52065/



5. He managed to convince governments of the world's eight most powerful countries to give the Bank key global leadership role in the fight against climate change while the Bank continued to be the world's largest subsidizer of fossil fuels.

6. He made the difficult concept of corruption real to ordinary people.

7. He unified the World Bank staff against a common enemy.

8. He took up so much of The Washington Post the day after tendering his "resignation" that Paris Hilton's sentencing got pushed to page three of the "Style" section.

9. His scandal drew attention to three decades of terrific work by World Bank critics on everything from the environment to worker rights to family planning to the irony of someone who makes nearly $400,000 offering advice to those who make less than a dollar a day.

10. By resigning before he had to be forklifted out the door, he may have preserved the time-honored tradition of the U.S. government naming the World Bank president, possibly offering the Bush administration an exit strategy for Alberto Gonzales.

[orleans]

1. thanks. and here is 1-4 from your alternet link

never mind.

[BlooInBloo]

2. lol! I just didn't want to take away hits from alternet. Oh well.

[orleans]

3. oh dear. i'll see if it isn't too late for me to edit!

nope. not too late! (smile)

[BlooInBloo]

5. It wasn't *that* big of a deal, but thanks!

[opihimoimoi]

4. K n R

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