Bush wades in to save beleaguered Wolfowitz

[babylonsister]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/15/wolfie15.xml

Bush wades in to save beleaguered Wolfowitz

By Tim Shipman in Washington, Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 11:54pm BST 14/04/2007

President George W Bush has launched a last-ditch bid to save the career of Paul Wolfowitz, the World Bank president and an architect of the Iraq war, who is facing cronyism claims for helping his girlfriend gain a promotion and a huge pay rise.

Mr Wolfowitz faces a growing clamour for his resignation over the controversy, which is overshadowing the annual spring meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington.

White House officials intervened after a leaked report revealed that European governments had decided to cut off contributions to the bank's loan funds unless Mr Wolfowitz quits.

"The president has full confidence in Paul Wolfowitz," said the White House spokesman Dana Perino. "He's done a remarkable job at the World Bank. We expect him to remain as World Bank president. He has the president's support."

Henry Paulson, the US treasury secretary, described Mr Wolfowitz as "a very dedicated public servant".

The World Bank's board of directors, which adjourned a meeting on his fate on Friday, say they will reach a decision on his future soon.

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[paparush]

1. Save his career - What a load of horseshit...If Wolfie gets canned by the WB

he will IMMEDIATELY take a high paying job at some conservative think tank or lobbying firm and continue to poison the world with his neocon cancer.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. I thought Bush said his would be a moral presidency

How moral is it for a person to get his girlfriend a job like this, especially when he is still married? Not good-not good at all. Hope the kids at BYU are reading about this-they appeared to be very upset about Cheney for using bad language-I can imagine what they think about this. We need to keep hammering home the immorality of the Bush Administration to all religious conservatives. If they have read the Bible, they know Jesus's opinion of hypocrites.

[subterranean]

3. If I were Paul Wolfowitz, that's the last thing I'd want to hear.

"The president has full confidence in Paul Wolfowitz." That's the kiss of death.

But this begs the question: So what if Bush has confidence in him? It's not his decision to make.

[Joanne98]

4. HA! Now he's really doomed!

[Lobster Martini]

5. il bacio della morte--the kiss of death

The President also had full confidence in Alberto Gonzales (not dead yet but the sharks are in the water), Donald Rumsfeld (shark bait), Harriet Miers (shark bait), Tom DeLay (shark bait), Michael Brown (shark bait), now it's the Wolfman's turn. Memo to me--do not use W. as an employment reference. It is like rolling snake eyes.