Ousting Wolfowitz:
Paul Wolfowitz has been blight upon the World Bank and a matter of shame for many Americans who are still seeking clarification over his role in developing and promoting fatally flawed US policies in the Middle East.
Wolfowitz has a long history of fraud against the United States. In the 1980’s, he played a central role in inflating estimates of Soviet military threats in a successful bid to unnecessarily increase defense spending against what were later revealed to be non-threats such as stealth submarines and the Backfire bomber.
In 2002, Wolfowitz played a part in the Boeing air tanker scandal, in which US tax payers, on his recommendation, were to pay leasing margins for a new fleet of refueling tankers, rather than issue US government bonds for financing. This blunder alone would have disqualified him from any serious position involving finance requiring integrity, knowledge of debt financing and transparency. In Iraq his strategy, again fueled by disinformation, has played a critical part in the death of more than 600,000 Iraqi civilians and creation of two million refugees.
Wolfowitz has never been qualified to lead the World bank.
Even cursory analysis of his skills, moral standing, and accomplishments make his immediate ouster an urgent, though second best solution to never appointing him in the first place.