Talk about uniting the anti-war and anti-globalization movements!
The Spring World Bank-IMF Meetings will be held in Washington April 16-17 and presumably would when Wolfowitz would be formally named (assuming the Europeans acquiesce, which says a lot). The Annual Meeting will be in Washington Sept 26-27 and would be his first.
We should begin now to think of these as "special events".
Thomas Lepeardo
Bush Recommends Wolfowitz to Head World Bank
By William Branigin and Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, March 16, 2005; 10:05 AM
President Bush will nominate Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul D. Wolfowitz to be the next president of the World Bank, an administration official said, tapping one of his administration's most controversial figures as the U.S. choice to head the 184-nation institution.
Word that Bush was considering the Pentagon's No. 2 man for the World Bank post has circulated in Washington in recent days, but the White House previously shot down the rumors.
Wolfowitz, 61, would replace James Wolfensohn, the outgoing World Bank president, who has announced that he would not seek a new term.
The United States traditionally nominates a candidate to head the World Bank, while European nations customarily choose the head of the International Monetary Fund.
But the choice of Wolfowitz is seen as likely to stir controversy because of his role in advocating the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Known as one of the administration's leading hawks, Wolfowitz has earned a reputation as a forceful promoter of U.S. military action abroad.
He has served as deputy defense secretary since March 2001. He previously was undersecretary of defense for policy from 1989 to 1993. Under the Reagan administration, he spent three years as U.S. ambassador to Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation.
