Is Paul Wolfowitz Dead Meat?

April 13 (LPAC)--On the eve of the opening of the International Monetary Fund annual meeting in Washington, D.C., it appears that World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz-the neo-conservative warmonger behind the hoked up lies that led to the Iraq war-could be dumped. And, it appears likely that forces in Britain are behind the current massive effort to oust him.

After Wolfowitz was exposed on April 12 for, leading world press, led by the Financial Times published details of his operation which has led the 13,000 member World Bank employees association to call for his resignation. This would be part of a general move over the past weeks by some in the United Kingdom, suggested Lyndon LaRouche, who have decided that they don't want to see a new war on Iran, a war which is now in the early implementation stage under the direction of Wolfowitz's political sponsor, Dick Cheney.

Evidence of LaRouche's hypothesis is plentiful. The battle has been waged to a great extent between the Financial Times of London, which began the leaks about Wolfowitz's corrupt handling of his girlfriend's position and salary from the Bank, and, on the other side, the neocon mouthpiece in New York, the Wall Street Journal, which is defending their boy Wolfy to the hilt. It is of note that the cushy job at the State Department to which his girlfriend Shaha Riza was deployed (while still on the World Bank payroll) was under the direction of mad-woman Liz Cheney, the daughter of Dick ().

The lead editorial in the Financial Times of April 13, is titled: "Wolfowitz must be told to resign now." The same newspaper edition carries with a letter to the editor from Gautam Kaji, an Indian who was a leading Bank official over international affairs under former President James Wolfensohn, which is titled: "Quit or be fired: that should be Wolfowitz's choice."

Further evidence is that the Board of the Bank, after two days of intense discussions, as of Friday afternoon, was postponing a decision on what to do with their corrupt President. Some insiders have told EIR that the Board wants to hear first from the Europeans (including the British), whose delegates to the IMF meeting being held on Saturday will be arriving today.

While the scandal is ostensibly about the personal corruption, the real issues are coming out into the open as part of the ruckus. Since Wolfowitz moved from the Defense Department to the World Bank in June 2005, he has earned the rage of the staff at the Bank by using an "anti-corruption" campaign to cut off aid to countries which were on the U.S. hit-list. The New York Times reported today that aid to Uzbekistan was cut off when they ousted the U.S. troops stationed there in 2005, while similar political motivations led to a cut off of aid to India, Chad, Kenya and others under fraudulent "anti-corruption" auspices. The World Bank Board became so incensed that they changed the rules last month so that Wolfowitz could not use charges of corruption to cut aid without the approval of the Board. Now they are likely to finish off his Bank career altogether.

For the backround on Wolfowitz as a leading Straussian in the Neoconservative circle which gave us the Iraq War, see
the April 2003 EIR article by Jeffrey Steinberg

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