Wolfie About to Bite the Dust

Paul Wolfowitz, one of the most detested people in the world, the “mastermind” behing the Iraq War and the crazy fanatic hell-bent on using the World Bank to ruin the rest of the world, seems to be on his way out. Good fucking riddance.

Executive Summary of the whole affair: After ruining the Middle East, Bush decided to send Wolfie to the World Bank so he can apply his unique blend of incompetence, racism, dogma, idiocy and demagoguery to the rest of the world. He came in and branded himself as a crusader against corruption, going out of his way to piss off everyone in the world by fucking over governments that disagree with Bush under the pretense of ‘fighting corruption’. Meanwhile, he promoted his girlfriend and moved her to the State Department and got her the highest sallary in the State Department, even higher than Condi! He also subverted the rules to get this done, and hired a couple of mercenaries from his days in the US Government to go around the Bank and terrorize the fuck out of anyone who objects to anything he says. Word got out of this whole affair and now the Workers of the World (Bank) have united against their boss.

A friend of mine who works for the Bank sent me this email on the beautiful staff meeting that happened there yesterday:

I just got out of a question and answer session with the Chair of the World Bank Staff Association, in which she called on Wolfowitz to resign because “his conduct has compromised the integrity of the World Bank Group and has destroyed the staff’s trust in his leadership”…. to his face! Once the calls of “Resign! Resign!” from the crowd of staffers subsided, Wolfowitz provided a meek statement that he cannot talk about the details currently under review by the Executive Directors, but that he had tried to excuse himself from the matter of his girflriend’s promotion at the outset, yet now “regrets not have excused himself completely”.

One of the best perks about the WB job for Wolfie was that he has had a very convenient excuse to not answer anyone about what happened with Iraq. Since getting this job he has refused entirely to answer any questions about Iraq, citing a conflict of interest. It is good to know that that will soon be over. Though Steve Clemons has a very interesting piece of gossip about Wolfie going around DC these days with a merry kit of fabricated nonsense talking to “influential journalists” and trying to convince them that he was right about Iraq and that Saddam was indeed best buddies with Osama.

In other news, Bush is looking for a new ‘War Czar’, in what could arguable be called the worst possible job in the whole world. Who better to fuck up Bush’s last days in office than a man significatly responsible for starting his wars. Let’s hope Bush assigns it to him! Anyone up for starting a campaign on this?

Further Reading:
The FT calls for his head
Wonkette has been following this affair minute-by-minute, with relish.