so henious, so vile, so despicable, so immoral that these George Bush republicans won't do? I have yet to see it.

Wow, it's such a lucky thing we had Wolfie around to protect us from Riza rage at the World Bank.

And it only cost him $180,000 of our money, a disastrous war, and hopefully, his job.

Personally, I find it offensive that Mr. Wolfowitz would take the job if it meant damaging his girlfriend's career. (No wonder he arranged the raise, it was to ease his guilt.)

She should have dumped him the moment she learned of his self serving priorities. Mr. Wolfowitz is quite well known, he could have found employment elsewhere.

"Wolfowitz the lover"

There goes my lunch.

That says it all, but applies to the whole gang of Bushits.

President of the National Bank of Iraq

So Wolfie, you had to give your girlfriend a huge raise to keep her from getting upset? Sounds like appeasement to me, fella.

So Wolfie pays off his girlfriends/whores. If you looked like Nosferatu with a combover, you'd have to date prostitutes too.

But soft! For those of us who think what's wrong with this world is the continued existence of certain fat, white, old men, here's a hot flash:

The Reverend Jerry Falwell has died.

I hope Satan finished that addition of the Tenth Circle of Hell for ol' Jerry!

... Salon misses the larger story. What's happening to Wolfowitz is nothing but a George Soros-inspired Leftist coup against someone who wanted to reform an abjectly corrupt organization. And to threaten to fire someone over this while ignoring years of insider back-scratching at the institution would be laughable if it wasn't so hypcritical.

One of the chief instigators of this coup is Mark Malloch Brown, who was Kofi Annan's right-hand man at the UN during the Oil for Food corruption and who dismissed this massive fraud as a simple abberation. (In fact anyone who knows the UN was hardly surprised at the depth and depravity of that scandal.)

Brown lives in a princely estate in New York that is subsidized by Soros and was just named president of the Quantum Fund, the hedge fund run by Soros.

More evidence of a kangaroo court mounted against Wolfowitz: The committee investigating him dropped 600 pages in Wolfowitz's lap and told him he had 48 hours to respond--in direct violation of World Bank staff rule 8.01, 4.09, which states that "the amount of time allowed a staff member to comment [on an investigative report] . . . will not be less than 5 business days." Following protests from Mr. Wolfowitz's lawyer, the committee gave him 72 hours.

Of course, ace "reporter" Michael Scherer gets none of this in his report.

Salon should be ashamed of itself for publishing such shallow drivel that completely misses the true story of the World Bank.

...but in what sort of organization is the PRESIDENT considered to be part of the STAFF? For better or worse, he's MANAGEMENT, with all the privileges and pitfalls that come with such a lofty position.

Aha?

Razbanyas yatzee benefucci achiliminee kharongie paranissima mihah...

That's a very rich, very Clintonian response, but the rules an organization are governed by apply equally to everyone employed by the organization. The investigating committee was not the slightest bit interested in a fair report. They're simply the Red Queen: first we'll pronounce judgment, then we'll hold a trial.

Your failure to address many of the other issues involved speaks volumes if you can come up with only this pipsqueak of a response.

Titus, you have a lot of nerve accusing someone of not addressing the issues, when you have dodged the issue yourself. Paul Wolfowitz used his position as World Bank President to make his girlfriend comfortable, and you think the problem is a leftist conspiracy! Rather than admit Paul Wolfowitz is capable of doing anything wrong, you'd rather blame a liberal conspiracy theory. The "issues" you raise are just noise to try to deflect accusations away from Paul Wolfowitz. George Soros and Mark Malloch Brown have nothing to do with whether or not Wolfowitz did anything wrong.

You are a Republican cultist. I've linked my name to an article on the Republican cult. It describes you perfectly.

Titus, the blog entry was in response to Wolfowitz's own statement in defense of his actions. Pointing to Soros as the (ongoing Republican) boogieman does nothing to diminish the fact that Wolfowitz's excuse is incredibly lame.

If his girlfriend was going to be upset at him taking on a position that would run in conflict with hers, that was strictly between him and her as to whether he should take it or not. That's how things are done with any dual career couples I know.

Only a neocon would find the only possible solution to be granting the lower employed of the two a (tax funded) 40% raise while she works at another organization entirely where she is neither needed, wanted or qualified.

And only a deluded zealot would approve of it.

... who leads the world bank ? history shows it's just a tool for the corporate occupation. At least with the likes of Wolfwitz, bush et al in charge (with their arrogance and blatant disregard for morals, ethics and any view other than their own narrow minded one) people have woken up and become much more informed about what exactly is going on, and are resisting in many ways and countries around the world.If the Democrats had been voted into the White House (or been handed it by the supreme court as the Republicans were) would it have been much different? considering that they voted the Neocon line all the way, probably not -- people would just be less informed and angry about it all. Talking of the world bank i just watched a documentary on Aljazeera by Max Keiser of Karmabanque, called "banking on it", its on youtube (ofcourse!!) well worth a look.

ever borrowed his comb?

Sounds like he might have some anger management issues himself from this item in today's Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2079878,00.html