Surprise, surprise, surprise!
The Bush regime is so crooked, so backward, so prone to elitism that they can’t even stay out of trouble in places where its almost impossible to get into trouble.
Paul “the Where?” Wolfowitz is now caught in a scandal where he funneled a plush job and unjustifiable massive raises to a secret, Libyan-born lover. Sounds juicy doesn’t it?
Paul Wolfowitz was given the position of President of the World Bank as a thank you gift. A thank you for all the hard work he did to get this country to invade Iraq, but also a strategic maneuver. A Now that you’ve become a lightening rod, please take this well regarded, but quiet and out of the way, esteemed position where you can play with the lives of third world countries at your political will type of maneuver. Since Americans don’t care about the World Bank, it is supposed to be a quiet place where disgraced leaders, like Vietnam era Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, can go to catch some R&R and even do some good in the world like combating the spread of diseases, a place to regain one’s lost soul.
Yet the werewolf found love, in a Libyan born woman, and showered her with gifts. Gifts like a raise from $132,660 to $193,590. What woman doesn’t deserve a $60,000 raise paid for by the exploits of starving third world countries? How romantic!