The battle of Wolfowitz

The White House has chosen to defend Paul Wolfowitz even though the World Bank found that he had broken Bank rules.

"We've made clear that we support Paul Wolfowitz," White House spokesman Tony Snow told reporters.

"Furthermore, he has said -- and we agree -- that certainly a lot of mistakes were made in the personnel process. But it's not a firing offense," he added.

Right, it is not a firing offense because the mistakes made by the Administration, by comparison, would call for much stronger medicine, say waterboarding or impeachment. A little nepotism is trivial. It is not as if he was blown by the intern, shot a hunting buddy in the face, or conspired to start a civil war. Maybe that last one was off the mark but you get their point, right? Compared to Iraq, Katrina, or any of the four million corruption scandals brewing out there, this is nothing.

Look, this is yet another in the long series of attempts by BushCo to avoid any sort of accountability for their mistakes. Wolfowitz is their boy and, as such, is above the law. Holding them responsible for their actions means that the terrorists have won or something…
Once again, these are awful people doing terrible things.