Bush Restored Dishonor and Lack of Integrity With Paul Wolfowitz

On Halloween Day back in the year 2000, the Dallas Morning News proclaimed, “Bush will restore honor and integrity”. It was a standard line of the Bush for President campaign, and one dutifully echoed by Republican-aligned newspapers.

Bush and his Republican allies were right to criticize Bill Clinton’s sexual affair with a White House intern. That affair was not honorable, and showed a lack of integrity. The problem is that many of George W. Bush’s Republican allies in the White House have done much the same as President Clinton.

Paul Wolfowitz is a good example. Bush didn’t follow through on his promise to restore honor and integrity when he put Paul Wolfowitz in positions of power.

George W. Bush appointed Paul Wolfowitz as Deputy Secretary of Defense, and then got Wolfowitz the position of President of the World Bank. But Paul Wolfowitz now admits that he abused his authority within the Bush Administration and at the World Bank in order to arrange for pay raises and automatic positive evaluations at the United States Department of State for his lover, an official at the World Bank. Wolfowitz also acknowledges that he used his power to get her a promotion at the World Bank when she went to returned there to work under Wolfowitz. Other people at the State Department and World Bank didn’t get this preferential treatment, because they weren’t sharing a bed with Wolfowitz.


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