PHA-Exchange> Wolfowitz is got to be fired

[PHM Global Secretariat]

Dear Friends,
Many greetings from PHM global secretariat office in Cairo!

The PHM has signed the attached petition that was circulated earlier on the 
PHA-exchange.
We encourage you all to sign it individually as well.

Yours Sincerely,

Hani Serag
Global Secretariat Coordinator,
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Woodward" <David.Woodward at neweconomics.org>
To: <claudio at hcmc.netnam.vn>; <pha-exchange at lists.kabissa.org>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 9:14 AM
Subject: RE: PHA-Exchange> Wolfowitz is got to be fired


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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claudio at hcmc.netnam.vn
Sent: Fri 4/13/2007 7:34 PM
To: pha-exchange at lists.kabissa.org
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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