Did Wolfie's girlfriend nudge him into Iraq policy?

[happydreams]

..The appointment of George Bush's leading hawk as head of the World Bank was heading for a crisis over his relationship with a senior British employee.

Influential members of staff at the international organisation have complained to its board that Paul Wolfowitz, a married father of three, is so besotted with Oxford-educated Shaha Riza he cannot be impartial.

Extraordinarily, they claim she played a key role in pushing the 61-year-old Pentagon official into the Iraq War. And the row comes amid claims that Wolfowitz's wife Clare once warned George Bush of the threat to national security any infidelity by her husband could cause.

A British citizen - at 51, eight years younger than Wolfowitz's wife - Ms Riza grew up in Saudi Arabia and was passionately committed to democratising the Middle East when she allegedly began to date Wolfowitz.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=342048&in_page_id=1770

[Warpy]

1. He didn't need pushing

He's PNAC and I'm sure AIPAC had much more of an effect than she did. The only country that was more desperate than the neocons to get Saddam Hussein out of the way was Israel.

It's not always a woman's fault, you know, not even if she's a homewrecker.

[IChing]

2. I didn't know the Mossad were girls.

He is thicker than mud into something
when you look at his background.

[peacetalksforall]

3. Hmmm - I'd like know more - she is? nt

[BlooInBloo]

4. LOLOL!!!

[peacetalksforall]

5. I wonder if there will be transcripts of the 'interviews'? Will Riza

speak for herself or is Victoria 'gonna' speak for her? I would love to know the defense for 'no conflict of interest' and no 'conflict of benefits' from her parallel job that Wolfie set up.

an aside - Can you imagine Victoria before the board? If she pulls something like that pre-hearing op ed that she came up with - or whines and waves her arms - it should be a fun thing to watch.

What I don't want to think about is what it must be like for his wife - being the mother to three, keeping the balance.