[WCUSP] Fwd: Fire Wolfowitz

[yvonne simmons]

>> On Friday morning, Paul Wolfowitz -- President
> Bush's key architect of the Iraq war, now president
> of the World Bank and self-styled fighter of
> corruption -- was caught red-handed in a corruption
> scandal of his own. He pushed a huge pay raise for
> his girlfriend, and hid the facts from his
> organization and the world.
> 
> He's got to go.
> 
> The World Bank's board, made up of our governments
> from around the world, is now deciding whether
> Wolfowitz should keep his job. An immediate,
> massive, and global outcry could make the
> difference. Our petition is three words long: "Sack
> Paul Wolfowitz." Sign it here:
> 
> www.avaaz.org/en/sack_wolfowitz/?cl=6693427 
> 
> When Paul Wolfowitz was a top official in President
> Bush's Department of Defense, he was one of the Iraq
> war's biggest backers. When the war became a fiasco,
> instead of firing Wolfowitz,  Bush gave him a
> promotion--to president of the World Bank. At the
> Bank, he vowed to make corruption his top issue--but
> alienated the world by delaying aid packages to
> India, Kenya, and other countries without consulting
> the bank's Executive Board.
> 
> Now we've learned that he didn't practice what he
> preached.
> 
> Wolfowitz's girlfriend was a senior World Bank
> employee. When he became president, the Bank's
> ethics rules would not allow him to keep her on
> staff under his supervision. So he transferred her
> to the US State Department--but kept her on the
> Bank's payroll, and gave her a US$60,000 pay raise.
> Her salary rose to US$193,590, higher than Condi
> Rice's. What's more, it appears that Wolfowitz hid
> the evidence of what he'd done.
> 
> Fighting corruption is a key to ending poverty. But
> there can't be one standard for the rich and
> powerful and a different one for everybody else.
> 
> The 24-member board of the World Bank, which
> uncovered Wolfowitz's corruption through a special
> investigation, is now deciding his fate. Bush is
> likely pulling strings to help Wolfowitz keep his
> job. It's time for global public opinion to weigh
> in--which means it's all up to you.
> 
> Click here now to sign the petition, and then send
> this email to ten friends:
> 
> www.avaaz.org/en/sack_wolfowitz/?cl=6693427 
> 
> Wolfowitz claimed the Iraq war would spread
> democracy, but it sparked a civil war. He promised
> to fight corruption, but engaged in it himself.
> 
> He talks a lot about accountability. It's time to
> bring some accountability to Paul Wolfowitz.
> 
> With hope,
> 
> Ben, Ricken, Hannah, Galit, Lee-Sean, Tom, and the
> rest of the Avaaz team.
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