PHA-Exchange> Wolfowitz is got to be fired

[David Woodward]

Anyone who wants to do something about this can sign on to the petition at http://www.avaaz.org/en/sack_wolfowitz/?cl=6667061. It appears to have been launched only on Friday evening - and already has more than 30,000 signatures!
 
David

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Subject: PHA-Exchange> Wolfowitz is got to be fired




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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