I wrote this post on March 18, 2005 when George W Bush named Paul Wolfowitz the head of the World Bank ~ as a reward for designing the Iraq debacle.

What was obvious then has been proven even more obvious today with his recent shenanigans at the World Bank.

Bush has surrounded himself, as the king of ineptitude, with an ensemble of princes of ineptitude including Wolfowitz, Bolton, Rumsfeld, Bremer, Feith, Meirs, Gonzales and the Emperor himself ~ Dick Cheney.

Here is my original post ~ which is worthy of a re-read considering the current Wolfowitz debacle. 

In yet another classic triumph of ineptitude George Bush names Paul Wolfowitz , the failed architect of the Iraq quagmire, to head the World Bank.

Michael Lind / Salon calls Wolfowitz the Mr Magoo of American Foreign policy and lists his three decades resume of glaring failures and concludes  ~ " Like the myopic cartoon character, Wolfowitz stumbles onward blindly and serenely, leaving wreckage and confusion behind. "

Excerpt: " Diplomat, military tactician, grand strategist -- as I said, Paul Wolfowitz is perfectly incompetent....Wrong about geopolitics in general, Wolfowitz has been wrong about Iraq in particular .... We live in a country in which privates are punished for the crimes of generals, so it is only natural that Wolfowitz should be rewarded for the blunders, errors and miscalculations that have cost the American and Iraqi people so much by promotion to the World Bank. That's the way it is with Mr. Magoo. Whenever he steps blindly out of a building he has accidentally set on fire, a truck is always conveniently passing by."

Allen L Roland   http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2007/04/25.html 

 Mr. Magoo goes to the World Bank

By Michael Lind / SALON 

Whitehead Senior Fellow at New American Foundation in Washington, D.C

March 17, 2005 The nomination of Paul Wolfowitz to be president of the World Bank, following his commission of a long and costly series of blunders as deputy secretary of defense in George W. Bush's first term, comes as no surprise to those familiar with his career. Wolfowitz is the Mr. Magoo of American foreign policy. Like the myopic cartoon character, Wolfowitz stumbles onward blindly and serenely, leaving wreckage and confusion behind.

Critics are wrong to portray Wolfowitz as a malevolent genius. In fact, he's friendly, soft-spoken, well meaning and thoughtful. He would be the model of a scholar and a statesman but for one fact: He is completely inept. His three-decade career in U.S. foreign policy can be summed up by the term that President Bush coined to describe the war in Iraq that Wolfowitz promoted and helped to oversee: a "catastrophic success."

Even the greatest statesman makes some mistakes. But Wolfowitz is perfectly incompetent. He is the Mozart of ineptitude, the Einstein of incapacity. To be sure, he has his virtues, the foremost of which is consistency. He has been consistently wrong about foreign policy for 30 years.

In the 1970s and 1980s, as a member of the Committee on the Present Danger and "Team B," Wolfowitz and his allies, such as Richard Perle, argued that the decrepit Soviet Union was vastly more powerful than the CIA claimed it was. After the Soviet Union dissolved, it turned out that the CIA had exaggerated Soviet strength.

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