Letters to the Editor

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Not only did the World Bank president find his companion Shaha Ali Riza a cushy job in the State Department, but she received a security clearance -- unprecedented for a foreign national.
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  • Wolfowitz's girlfriend problem

    Wow. Big-time Republican with power and all, and this bow-wow is the best he can do in the trophy girlfriend department???

    Obviously a failed Republican. Go over to Wolcott's blog and look at Fred Thompson and Miss Tits, er, his trophy lady. Now that is a Republican trophy girl. Two trophys simultaneously!

  • Neo Conjob

    The idea that the neo cons were involved in 9/11 has never seemed strange to me - at least not since I saw the mountain of evidence supporting that idea. They're simply rotten to the core and how they ever conned the American electorate into returning a dummy like Bush to the White House is beyond me. I suppose that's what happens when most people don't bother to vote. The fact that Wolfowitz is 'sleeping with the enemy' as some people would see it, comes as no surprise. After all, Osama bin Laden was America's ally in Afghanistan and the CIA put Saddam Hussein in power and funded and armed him for decades. It's a strange, twisted and murky world these people inhabit, which is fine, just as long as they're not the government. It seems the CIA is now officially running the government, not the other way round.

  • Riza's Mission?

    It seems Shaha Riza would have to be interested in something more than just amorous relations with sleaze-ball Wolfowitz.

  • Wolfowitz and the rest: A plague on their houses

    This has to be the largest money and power grabbing free for all that the world has seen since Babylonian times. Who the f___ do these maniacs think they are?? Wolfie, you are doing a heck of a job, Brownie, Rummy, Berto, you are all doing a heck of a job... The only job I want these chicken hawks doing is license plates at the nearest penitentiary. As a Jew I am even more alarmed that the obfuscating tactics of Goebbels has been co-opted for the neo-conservative agenda. Just becuse you can lead the sheep with repeated lies doesn't mean you should!!! What are you thinking about Wolfowitz??? Oh, wait I know the answer, your paycheck and your dick. You sir are a schmuck.

  • Investing in romance

    I have no doubt that most of the girlfriend's big raise is being kicked right back to the boyfriend.

  • Re: Wolfowitz's girlfriend problem

    The article published by Washington Post on Ms. Riza on May 10 raised some questions in my mind. Was the package given to Ms. Riza a pay-off for services rendered in other areas? Was the relationship an "arranged marriage" or "marriage of convenience" to cover other things? I found it strange, to quote the Washington Post, that: "In April 2003, after the U.S. invasion, Riza took a month's leave from the World Bank to work with Iraqi women in Baghdad on forming a new government. Defense Department documents show that Wolfowitz, then still at the Pentagon, played a role in sending her." What I find even stranger is his wife's comments on Ms. Riza: "Shaha Riza is a dedicated and serious reform advocate who has my respect. I hope she will be able to continue her work in spite of everything." Obviously, something stinks in Denmark. Wolfowitz should not be given any special concessions, he has been amply rewarded with a high-paying job for launching an invasion in search of non-existent WMDs. There was no reason to arrange a special lavish package with an external appointment since wives and husbands and girlfriends and boyfriends do work at the Bank. This time, the master manipulator seems to have out-maneuvered himself.