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Sidney Blumenthal hands the Howlin' Wolf of the World Bank his lupine head in this Salon piece, Wolfowitz's Girlfriend Problem, which, despite the title, does an excellent job of reiterating the many ways that Wolfowitz's "problems" -- including the lasting damage he has helped inflict upon the American republic and the Iraqi people -- go far beyond the greasy deals he procured for his neocon squeeze. Blumenthal also eviscerates the myth that still persists, even among some "progressives," that Wolfowitz is some kind of deep-thinking idealist -- misguided perhaps, but sincere in his zealous commitment to democracy -- instead of what he is and most patently has been throughout his very long career in the bowels of the Beltway: an amoral, power-grubbing backroom operator, a "willing executioner" of heinous plans for loot and domination. Jon Schwarz nailed it solid last week with this summation of L'Affaire De Loup: More...
