Financial Times has Replacement for Wolfowitz: Tony Blair

May 14 (EIRNS) - The British Financial Times, the newspaper which has led the British side of the campaign against neocon mass-murder Paul Wolfowitz (currently carrying out his genocidal policies from his position as World Bank President), now seems to have a replacement in mind. In today's editorial section, Edward Mortimer says Bush should back Tony Blair for president of the Bank.

Although this would violate the "time-honored tradition" by which an American runs the Bank (while the Europeans ran the International Monetary Fund), it would at least prevent a less acceptable (continental) European from getting the job. People would overlook the fact that Blair, like Wolfowitz, was a major planner for the Iraq War, he says, since Blair, unlike the American Wolfowitz, has an established record of concern for the world's poor! And all this with a stiff upper lip.