13, May 2007 Paul Wolfowitz
President Bush continues to seek refuge in his tight bubble refusing to acknowledge the indefensible behavior of his appointees. No sooner had Alberto Gonzalez completed his lamentable “I don’t recall” testimony at the growing scandal of the firing of federal prosecutors, the nation was confronted with the inexcusable behavior of ‘big, bad Paul Wolfowitz’.
As former deputy secretary of Defense, Wolfowitz, testified before the US Congress, that the occupation of Iraq wouldn’t cost the American taxpayer a single penny. He assured Congress, "There's a lot of money to pay for this that doesn't have to be U.S. taxpayer money . . . ." revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the next two or three years." After guiding the ship of state towards the quick sands of an Iraqi quagmire, Bush appointed Wolfowitz to become head of the World Bank, where his autocratic style caused a mass exodus of many of its senior professional staff. It is ironic that Wolfowitz should be caught with his hands in the Word Bank cookie jar attempting to grant his long time girlfriend, Ms. Riza, a huge raise at about the same time he launched an aggressive campaign to rid third world counties of corruption.
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