Paul Wolfowitz has proven what a colossal failure he has been as an architect of the Iraq War and as World Bank President.

But this is not surprising.  White House resident George W. Bush has proven to be one of the worst presidents in U.S. history.  

Failed individuals have a wavelength that harmonizes with other fabulous failures.  So it was only natural that Bush and Wolfowitz would see eye to eye on launching the disastrous Iraq War spectacle.

This fabulous failure apparently made no evident impact on Bush.  Bush blithely went on to appoint (or should we say anoint because he claims he confers with his other father) Wolfowitz as president of the World Bank.

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A Pentagon panel has cleared Paul Wolfowitz in its investigation of his involvement in his girlfriend's Iraq junket.

Paul Wolfowitz, while serving as deputy secretary of defense, personally recommended that his companion, Shaha Ali Riza, be awarded a contract for travel to Iraq in 2003 to advise on setting up a new government, says a previously undisclosed inquiry by the Pentagon's inspector general.  

The inquiry, as described by a senior Pentagon official, concluded that there was no wrongdoing in Wolfowitz's role in the hiring of Riza by the Science Applications International Corporation, a Pentagon contractor, because Riza had the expertise required to advise on the role of women in Islamic countries.

 

The investigators also found that Wolfowitz, now president of the World Bank, had not exerted improper influence in Riza's hiring. Earlier this week, Science Applications International said an unidentified Defense Department official had directed that she be hired. She had been a World Bank employee for five years at the time.