YES!

This is just the stupid sycophant we need at the World Bank.

Jesus H Christ carrying flowers, will America ever realize what an asshole they have for a president? The guy fucks the world almost daily and we stand for it.

Mr Zoellick was a paid consultant on the Enron advisory board before joining the US administration.

He also owned Enron shares worth between $15,000 and $50,000, which he sold after joining the administration.

Mr Zoellick is the cabinet official in charge of negotiating trade deals for the Bush White House.

He is trying to open up foreign markets to US companies, including ambitious plans for expanding the North American Free Trade Area (currently including Canada, US, and Mexico) to the rest of the Latin America - a goal strongly backed by US industry.

Do I have to give up? Just asking.

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Must read IMHO

Wanna know what really happened at the World Bank? You don't, but its here.

Porcine flight

If that highlighted quote below [emphasis mine] doesn't make you fall off your chair laughing, you haven't been paying attention at all.

"The current unjust arrangement by which the U.S. gets to appoint the head of the World Bank and the Europeans pick the head of the IMF has to end," said Bernice Romero, advocacy director for international development group Oxfam.

Nancy Birdsall, president of the Washington-based Center for Global Development, said the Wolfowitz case illustrated the need for change, but she questioned whether the United States would budge.

"I wish the Bush administration would announce its support for an open, competitive and merit-based process," Birdsall said.

"When pigs fly," SPIIDERWEB™ said.

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