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Paul Neocon Wolfowitz Revealed

Comment by Larry Ross, April 19, 2007

Paul Wolfowitz is a leading neo-conservative and one of the architects of the illegal war on Iraq. He was appointed by Bush to head the World Bank where he is now in deep trouble, as revealed by this article in the New York Times.

He wants to retain his job in spite of the fact that he is dragging the bank's name through the mud and they want him to resign.

This article does open a window to expose the type of person most valued by George Bush. It helps explain why and how the US has been led into such a sorry state today. It gives an indication of the kind of policies, and disastrous decisions, we can expect from a neo-conservative Administration of many people like Paul Wolfowitz in the future. Incidentally, he was one of the Pentagon people infuriated by New Zealand's 1984 decision to ban US nuclear warships and declare itself nuclear free.

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Contractor Was Told to Hire Wolfowitz Friend

Reuters, April 17, 2007

    The U.S. Defense Department ordered a contractor to hire a World Bank employee and girlfriend of then-Pentagon No. 2 Paul Wolfowitz in 2003 for work related to Iraq, the contractor said on Tuesday.

    A spokeswoman for Science Applications International Corp., or SAIC, said the Defense Department's policy office directed the company to enter a subcontract with Shaha Riza, under which she spent a month studying ways to form a government in Iraq.

    Wolfowitz, a key Iraq war architect who left the Pentagon in 2005 to become president of the World Bank, is already under fire for overseeing a high-paying promotion for Riza after he took the helm of the poverty-fighting global lender.

    Senior Democratic congressmen and other critics have pressed demands for his resignation, saying his actions have undermined the campaign against corruption in the developing world that has been a hallmark of his World Bank tenure.

    SAIC said Riza's subcontract lasted from April 25 to May 31, 2003. She was paid expenses but no salary during her trip to Iraq, at her request, according to the contractor.

    Melissa Koskovich, a spokeswoman for SAIC, said the contractor "had no role in the selection of the personnel who comprised the Iraq Governance Group under this contract."

    Defense sources said the Pentagon was reviewing the matter.

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