Wolfowitz, other neocon rats, need to be exterminated from U.S. political scene

A main reason that there are so many neocon pundits working at newspapers and Web sites these days is that most honorable people wouldn’t come within 1,000 feet of someone with such a twisted ideology, let alone hire them.

Luckily for neocons, they have a naked emperor all their own in President George W. Bush, who loves how they think, because it totally rebels against his dad. And he really doesn’t believe in actual democracy either.

It’s really come down to this, however: If someone is a neoconservative, or believes the PNAC mission statement is their gospel, then they are, in fact, corrupt scumbags. It has been too well documented. These people are simple, white-collared criminals, who have enjoyed a six-year reign because they have a rube in charge.

The latest example: Paul Wolfowitz, who continues to humiliate the U.S. and damage its already dwindling reputation by refusing to step down as President at the World Bank, after they’ve repeatedly told him that they think he’s ethics-free and that they don’t want him.

Now, of course, Wolfowitz is claiming that the reason he gave longtime companion, Shaha Riza preferential treatment at the World Bank was because she demanded it. Don’t look at him. It’s all her fault.

Bank Rebukes Wolfowitz On Ethics

A World Bank investigating committee sharply rebuked President Paul D. Wolfowitz, concluding that he broke ethics rules and undermined the integrity of the institution in engineering a hefty pay raise for his girlfriend.

“These actions manifest a lack of understanding for and a disregard for the institution as a public international organization,” declared the committee’s report, which was distributed to the bank’s executive directors yesterday and released publicly last night. It calls on the executive board to assess “whether Mr. Wolfowitz will be able to provide the leadership needed to ensure that the bank continues to operate to the fullest extent possible.”

In a written response, Wolfowitz maintained that he acted in good faith in seeking to resolve an obvious conflict of interest. He accused the bank’s ethics committee of forcing him to oversee the raise for his longtime companion, Shaha Riza, as compensation for her transfer to a different job. The ethics panel was afraid to confront her, Wolfowitz said, because its members knew she was “extremely angry and upset.”
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Wolfowitz effectively blamed Riza for his predicament as well, saying that her “intractable position” in demanding a salary increase as compensation for her career disruption forced him to grant one to pre-empt a lawsuit. He is scheduled to appear before the board this afternoon. The board is expected to begin deliberating on how to respond as soon as tonight. Board members are inclined to issue a resolution expressing a lack of confidence in Wolfowitz’s leadership, senior bank officials said.

Wolfowitz’s actions should be expected, however. This is who he is. This is what the neocon movement is. It is anti-democracy, anti-citizens, anti-American and it works under the cover of dark. In essence, the neocons that have sprouted up over the past generation are little more than rats, scurrying for any crumb they can find, while hiding from any that would chase them out.

But the rats are still afloat in the U.S. because one of their own is captain. And if they aren’t all rooted out of positions of power after 2008, they could bring down the whole ship.

–WKW

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