War as Foreplay

Amazing:

The appointment of George Bush's leading hawk as head of the World Bank was [sic] 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.

So what led us into Iraq? The desire for oil? The desire for revenge? No, just desire of the most primitive sort: a man being led around by his dick starts a war to impress his mistress. It would be merely tawdry, merely pathetic and laughable, if it weren't for all the slaughter and destruction that has resulted.