The Proudest Monkey

President Bush on Wednesday tapped ideolog Paul Wolfowitz to take over as head of the World Bank. Bush told a news conference that Wolfowitz, now Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's top deputy, was "a compassionate, decent man who will do a fine job at the World Bank. That's why I put him up."... not because Cheney told him to. "He is a man of good experience. He helped manage a large organization .... a skilled diplomat, worked at the State Department." And no doubt knows how to speak in complete sentences. Is there no end to this madness?

Paul Wolfowitz. Chief Architect for the war in Iraq; champion of Chalabi, vassal of the Carlyle Group and founding member of the Project for New American Century. The man who suggested that America needed a New Pearl Harbor, prior to the events of 9/11/01.