Wolfowitz Rises Vampire-Like from the Grave

Sorry for the short diary.  I am preparing for a trial, and my dad is in the hospital, and I checked the New York Times online to distract myself momentarily, and what did I see but this headline:

Rice Plans to Name Wolfowitz to Advisory Panel      

What does it take to keep these people dead?  

Well, you might ask, how bad could it be?  Is he going to be just one of many on some obscure advisory panel that no one listens to anyway?

Not exactly.

Wolfie is being asked to CHAIR the International Security Advisory Board.

The board gives the State Department independent advice on arms control, disarmament, international security and other matters and its members include two former directors of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

Here is what the State Department website says about the ISAB:

The Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board (formerly called the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board (ACNAB)) provides the Department with independent insight and advice on all aspects of arms control, disarmament, international security, and related aspects of public diplomacy. The ISAB is sponsored and overseen by the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security. The Board provides its recommendations directly to the Secretary of State. The Board currently has 18 members and is chartered to have up to 25. Board members are national security experts with scientific, military, diplomatic, and political backgrounds. The Board meets in a plenary session on a quarterly basis.

Yes, the man who brought you WMD and mushroom clouds, flowers and chocolates, a reconstruction that would finance itself, instant democracy, instant free market capitalism, -- not to mention millions for Ahmed Chalabi and galpal Shaha -- is being tapped again for his matchless expertise on international security.  Why wouldn't we want him to directly advise Kindasleezee Rice on arms control?  I mean, it's not like he would ignore or twist intelligence to exaggerate the threat of Middle Eastern nations' weapons programs.  It's not like he would view today's NIE on Iran's cessation of its nuclear weapons program 4 frakkin' years ago as something which confirms that the Administration was right to be concerned about Iran's nuclear program.  It's not like he would react to this news by continuing to "hope" that the non-existence of Iran's nuclear weapons program could be resolved diplomatically instead of militarily. Right?

I mean, Wolfowitz being named to this panel isn't nearly as ridiculous as the fact that my father had a heart attack today and is in the ICU and still hasn't been seen by his two-bit local cardiologist, is it?  The same two-bit local cardiologist who discharged him from the hospital on Friday because he was doing much better and didn't need to be in the hospital anymore, because why would you want someone to have a heart attack in a hospital when he can have it at home? Because God forbid my father should have a cardiologist in NYC when he can have some local two-bit guy from the Pine Barrens of New Jersey who doesn't return the phone calls of distraught adult children, including my sister the doctor, who is now en route to the Pine Barrens to dig out the local two-bit cardiologist from his cave, where Osama bin Laden is probably also hiding.

Thank you for listening. I'm a little crazy today.