Did anyone happen to notice that Wolfowitz's European trip is to the annual Bildeberger meeting?

Not only you have Wolfowitz as an example of undignified and unethical staff of the World Bank. You have all those who did not speak out and let him go ahead with his plan. You see it everyday. People just want to protect their jobs but let something unethical like this go ahead because of monetary and financial reasons, because they have a family to support and they are scared of a life outside the protection of the World Bank Group.

Check this one out: Staff get two promotions in one year and although the Staff Association complains about it, it is covered up in the interest of the organization. I would like to see a list of people who have had dubious and unqualified double promotions since 2004-5. Put everything on the table. It is time to stop the abuse of higher WB authorities. You have a very good example of a Director who who likes to overseas assignments taking her own assistant which is againts bank personnel policies. No one stopped her from doing it and on top the person doing the job in the resident mission was demoted and up do this day her grade nor job title has been changed although she is again in her previous position. Are the VP, Director and Human Resources doing what is right and ethical? Give me a break!

More scum from the Bush Admin not playing by the rules and then trying to feed their ego on the way out the door.

Face saving.....these guys all act like 12 year old kids in a sandbox. Screw them all.

Shame on World Bank with tha "save some face" nonsense. Just because he is rich, he can get away with anything? Why does the World Bank need to save his face after what he's done...played with people's lives, manipulated ethics? Its a shame!

To the reader who says he is responsible for the death of 3000 american citizens...it just does not end there...what about the conservative estimate of 400 thousand iraquis?

Can we ask Bush and the entire administration to resign now to save face?

I'm sure they would look good now compared to what the country and world will think of them after the next year and a half.

Send him to Irag to help mess up the country

Actually the Lancet's Oct 2006 figure of 650,000 deaths was reasonable and conversative some time ago. It's probably more accurate to say 700,000 to 800,000 at this point.

All of these neocons are responsible for this immoral slaughter.

So, when does Wolfowitz get invited to the Bush White House for his Medal of Freedom?

and he will personally be returning all the money, right? there's no chance for him to save face here; most already know what he did wrong... opinions won't change with this "shared responsibility" nonsense...

Why hasn't anyone asked the White House how it squares Wolfie's wife and mistress with their emphasis on family values. I agree that he should volunteer to go to Iraq and help turn around the mess he partially created.

Why don't they just send Wolfie to rehab like everyone else...Then he'll be "All better"!!...Go Wolfie your my hero!!!

I think that if he is forced to resign, there should be an independent inquiry into the world bank's operations and competence. The facts are that he went to the ethics committee and was completely transparent about everything he did to remove the "conflict of interest" of the transfer of the woman he was dating out of the World Bank and into the State Dept. If they approved and cleared these actions before they happened, then there is no basis to ask or recommend for him to resign. I believe the members of the ethics committee should be the ones asked to resign.

The problem is that we just have to come to grips with the political realities. This might mean a face saving exit. But the real face saving is not on behalf of Wolfowitz, but on the Office of the President of the Unites States.
The US government is caving in because they have just experienced another blow to their totalitarian and unilateral approach to world affairs.

What a shame that so many people in this country are buying the story from the world bank eminences who executed this frame-up job on Wolfowitz. It's a case study in why the World Bank is so hidebound and hermetically sealed. The records show that Wolfowitz himself asked to be recused from the matter of his girlfriend's job and compensation and was advised by the World Bank's ethics committee *itself* that he should take the lead in recommending her new job and salary.

From the Wall Street Journal: "Yet the record clearly shows he acted only after he had tried to recuse himself but then wasn't allowed to do so by the ethics committee. And he acted only after that same committee advised him to compensate Ms. Riza for the damage to her career from a "conflict of interest" that was no fault of her own."

All of the rest of this was a classic political hit, fed by willful liars and their willing accomplices. And by repeating the lies and the smears absent the documented context, it has become a fait accompli.

"The only way this fiasco could get any worse would be for Mr. Wolfowitz to resign in the teeth of so much dishonesty and cravenness. We're glad the Bush Administration isn't falling for this Euro-bureaucracy-media putsch. Mr. Wolfowitz has apologized for any mistakes he's made, though we're not sure why. He's the one who deserves an apology."

http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009948

either way, the world bank will continue to use tax payers money to finance multi-national corporations projects under the guise of economic development for underdeveloped nations.

look for WolfMan to be spit combing his hair for his new gig on Fox News - has anyone actually ever heard the guy talk or seen him do anything that wasn't totally corrupt? I know he was the first to get giggy with it and Bush and Rove followed suit, and he beat the drum for war relentlessly and we followed that so he must be some sort of neo con savant. Did Rumsfeld spit comb his hair cause he had sort of the same hair motif going on? Aren't they just the greatest bunch of guys?

This is a good moment to recall that Wolfowitz is among the supporters of Leo Strauss, the totalitarian political thinker who has been such a strong influence on the current wave of conservative leadership in Washington. For this crowd, the people are far too dumb to know what is good for them; it is necessary for the ":wise men" to lead them; such is the credulity of the people that to lead them it is necessary to feed them high sounding lies on one hand and stampede them with fears and alarms on the other. So lies are a vital part of governance, what is good is what is considered good by those who govern but are themselves above the law.(like giving a job that is not earned to a girl friend, or turning the World Bank into a profit center)) and the stuff of leadership is formenting small manageable wars and a continuing series of fake crises.
Kind of fits Wolfowitz, shows where the arrogance comes from, and shows most of all how wrong it is to along people to take leadership positions who believe they are above the law.

What a load of crap. This is a political witch hunt.

Wolfowitz did nothing more than what the ethics board asked him to do. He shouldn't resign, his cowardly lying incompetent thieving critics should.

it looks like his only crime was to try to clean up a very corrupt organization. like bolton in the un he was shaking the tree of corruption. members of the wb did not want to see their realm destroyed. when will we wake up and see that members of the eu are playing us like a violin in all these mutual organizations.