PHA-Exchange> Wolfowitz is got to be fired

[claudio at hcmc.netnam.vn]

On Friday morning, Paul Wolfowitz -- President Bush's key architect of the 
Iraq war, now president of the World Bank and self-styled fighter of 
corruption -- was caught red-handed in a corruption scandal of his own. He 
pushed a huge pay raise for his girlfriend, and hid the facts from his 
organization and the world.

The World Bank's board, made up of our governments from around the world, is 
now deciding whether Wolfowitz should keep his job. 

When Paul Wolfowitz was a top official in President Bush's Department of 
Defense, he was one of the Iraq war's biggest backers. When the war became a 
fiasco, instead of firing Wolfowitz,  Bush gave him a promotion--to president 
of the World Bank. At the Bank, he vowed to make corruption his top issue--but 
alienated the world by delaying aid packages to India, Kenya, and other 
countries without consulting the bank's Executive Board.

Now we've learned that he didn't practice what he preached.

Wolfowitz's girlfriend was a senior World Bank employee. When he became 
president, the Bank's ethics rules would not allow him to keep her on staff 
under his supervision. So he transferred her to the US State Department--but 
kept her on the Bank's payroll, and gave her a US$60,000 pay raise. Her salary 
rose to US$193,590, higher than Condi Rice's. What's more, it appears that 
Wolfowitz hid the evidence of what he'd done.

The 24-member board of the World Bank, which uncovered Wolfowitz's corruption 
through a special investigation, is now deciding his fate. Bush is likely 
pulling strings to help Wolfowitz keep his job. 


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