PAUL WOLFOWITZ MUST RESIGN AS PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK

Paul Wolfowitz must resign as president of the World Bank. According to Knissah Williams and Sabrina Valle in the Washington Post today, Wolfowitz played a role in obtaining a large raise for a World Bank employee, Ms. Shaha Riza, with whom he had a romantic relationship. His involvement in securing monetary benefits for a girl friend shows that Wolfowitz lacks common good business sense.

Wolfowitz was former Deputy Secretary of Defense and assistant to former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Wolfowitz was one of the main architects and engines for Bush's invasion and bombing of Iraq.

Wolfowitz exhibited poor judgment in causing the United States to go to war on the basis of false assertions about Iraq's possession of WMD. He shows the same poor judgment in his handling of personnel matters for the World Bank.