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2007-05-18 International-UN-NGOs

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Posted by Steve White 2007-05-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 when he directed staff to award a substantial raise to his girlfriend and then covered up the details.

Adios, MF. We'll only miss you because you weren't as bad as the rest. That's not saying much.

Posted by Angaiger Tojo1904 2007-05-18 01:01|| 2007-05-18 01:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Kinda puzzled about that "cover up" part. If the internal document the WSJ reported on a few weeks back was the whole story, this was nothing more than a lynching, flying in the face of all, not just some, of the facts. Wolfie reportedly tried - twice - to recuse himself, but the Bank people insisted he sign on Riza's deal. The whole thing sounds bizarre - if I were Wolfie, I'd have refused, stood my ground, and made a public stink about it, to guarantee the impossibility of this sort of smear. Hard to believe he's not clever enough to avoid a set-up, so the whole thing's murky to me.

But the lynching part is confirmed by the fact that the loathsome Bank staff (who are the most coddled, anti-US int. org. drrones I've ever met, and that includes the French idiots at UNHCR) and the pathetic Euros jumped on this the way they did.

Meanwhile it may also be yet another example of the pathetic, cowardly incompetence of the Bush team. These folks have morphed from the Truman admin. to the Carter admin. in a few short years. Astonishing, damaging, and sickening.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-05-18 02:34|| 2007-05-18 02:34|| Front Page Top

#3 This is a lynching. Like Mr. Bolton, he was trying to reform those who had absolutely no interest in giving up their pet corruptions... again backed by home governments that quite agree that People Like Us are entitled to a little extra for being so wonderful.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-05-18 06:33|| 2007-05-18 06:33|| Front Page Top

#4 This was a big victory for Wolfie. He had been effectively neutered by the WB bureaucracy and the press as an effective leader. The Brits were to have named his replacement, the first time a WB head was not named by the U. S. President. Instead, the WB board has publicly stated that he did nothing unethical and Bush gets to name his replacement. Who's out of a job....hmmmmm. John Bolton, perhaps?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-05-18 06:51|| 2007-05-18 06:51|| Front Page Top

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