Rice works the phones to bolster embattled World Bank chief

[maddezmom]

Source: AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been lobbying fellow foreign ministers in a bid to help embattled World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz keep his job, her spokesman said Thursday.

Wolfowitz, a former senior US official and one of the architects of the Iraq war, has been under intense and growing pressure to resign after the revelation last month that he engineered a massive pay hike and promotion for his companion, Shaha Riza, a World Bank employee.

But President George W. Bush has stood by his former employee in his refusal to step aside.

Over the past two weeks of the crisis, Rice has also weighed in on the effort, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.



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[babylonsister]

1. Ha! There go their crappy instincts-in-action again. So Rice is calling

all her many friends?:eyes:

[acmavm]

2. Yep, old Condi will do everything she can for her 'bad boy'

including making an absolute ass of herself sticking up for a comb licking lying neocon.

[hlthe2b]

3. Europeans have NO reason to kowtow to the Bush* admin

now, surely....:shrug:

Hit the road, Wolfie...

[orwell]

4. So nice to see that she's working so hard...

...to save this embattled asswipe.

It's so comforting to know there's nothing else for her to direct her attention to as Secretary of State, like, you know, maybe the situation in the crumbling Middle East.

[tanyev]

5. Please. Rice is barely capable of working the phones at a PBS pledge drive.

[MadMaddie]

6. Perhaps Rice should be doing her damn job.....trying to figure

out a way to gain peace in Iraq.....

It's amazing the manpower and effort these Neocons waste on shit like this...get rid of the guy he is an embarrassment.