Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader must admit that he doesn’t fully comprehend the newsworthiness of the whole Paul Wolfowitz’s girlfriend bruhaha going on at the World Bank right now.

As your Maximum Leader understands it, the head of the World Bank is always an American and is pretty much appointed by the President of the United States. President Bush appointed former Assistant Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz to be the World Bank President. It seems as though Mr. Wolfowitz was engaged in a romance with an employee of the World Bank, one Ms. Shaha Riza, at the time of his appointment. Apparently, Wolfowitz made this known and offered to recuse himself from any personnel decisions relating to Ms. Riza. It seems as though the World Bank’s Ethics Committee did not allow Mr. Wolfowitz to recuse himself from personnel decisions concerning Ms. Riza. Ms. Riza, according to all accounts, was transferred to a position outside the bank and wound up with a higher salary and some additional compensation as well.

Now, many are complaining that Wolfowitz used his position to set up Ms. Riza (with whom he presumably is still “going steady”). At least this seems to be what is being claimed in the Washington Post.

Frankly, if the facts are as they appear to be, then your Maximum Leader really can’t seem to figure out what the big fuss is all about. Now it is possible that there are “revalations” yet to come to light that would change the factual basis of his assumption. But for about a week now the story has seemed to be the same. Wolfowitz kept everyone in the loop. Wolfowitz tried to do the right thing. But, for some reason the right thing wasn’t done.

Now your Maximum Leader is waiting for the proverbial other shoe to drop in this matter, but for right now he just doesn’t see what all the fuss is about.

Well… That isn’t quite true. Paul Wolfowitz is a friend of the President, a friend of the Vice-President, and a “neo-con” thinker. That of course makes him quite akin to a minion of the devil himself - at least to many.

For right now, it appears as though Wolfowitz’s only crime is who he is and who he hung out with before going to the World Bank.

Carry on.