Who's Running The Ship Anyway?

When the Bush Administration was first appointed to power in January of 2001, they arrogantly declared "..the grown-ups are back in charge".  However, have you been watching the news closely these days about what kind of people are making major decisions on the lives of millions in Ethiopia and other Africans?

There's Paul "The Wolf" Wolfowitz, who is neither an economist nor a humanitarian, but somehow found himself as the head (no pun intended) of the World Bank - just one of many G W Bush crony appointments. He failed miserably in Iraq, so he had to be promoted to a cushy job, right? Yeah, the same Wolfowitz that gave money to the Ethiopian government despite Meles regime's atrocious record. Oh, I see how it works. Mr Wolfowitz gives money to everyone and anyone he screws. I get it.

First, like an 10 year old boarding school kid who woke up late for morning inspection, he licks his comb on camera, spits on his hand and and...aagghhh... just watch the video below.

Then he goes to a Mosque in Turkey and before entering, takes his shoes off out of respect, and like Shemsu the souk/kiosk guy from your neighborhood back home, (sorry all Shmemsu's back home) shows his own personal ventilation system in his shoes to the whole world. I don't know what's more offensive to the locals, walking into a mosque with your shoes on, or walking in with those socks?

To top all of that off, he has an affair with an underling and compensates her financially giving her a raise without the board's approval! I guess she gave him enough of those raises herself, if you know what I mean. Frankly, I say she is still underpaid, because any woman who is brave enough to touch that hair, and sleep with a man like Wolfie deserves all the money she can get. Ms Riza, you are a credit to your sex...no, not that sex. I mean your gender for being brave enough to sleep with that creature.

And what does Wolfie say when he is asked to resign? "You can't make me!!   I know you are, but what am I?"   And then he wants to make sure that he is compensated for all his hard work.

And then there is Randall "The Caller" Tobias, Mr. abstinence and ‘family value' type of guy. Randall Tobias, who was influential in the Bush Administration's so called "abstinence only" Global AIDS coordinator, was a former CEO to the global pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly before being named ‘AIDS Czar" in 2003. A former pharmaceutical CEO leading the AIDS fight. Hmm, what a coincidence! Well, just like many of the Bush Administration officials, Mr Tobias comes with a lot of baggage. It turns out that, Mr Tobias loves him some 'massage'   (yeah right) to help him come up with all these creatively wonderful and humanitarian AIDS policies.

Here are a few of Mr Tobias' hypocrisies. In an online White House interactive chat, Mr Randall said the following about Ethiopia's AIDS crisis.

Mr Tobias was instrumental is having AIDS funds cut off in many countries because he did not believe in forcing sex workers to use condoms or other methods to prevent the spread of the disease. I wonder if Mr Tobias used....naaah, I'm not going there. Read on and on .

I was going to include Condoleezza "The Shoe Lady" Rice and her blatant lie about her role in the pre-war intelligence before the Iraq invasion and her refusal to   testify in Congress, or George "Slam Dunk" Tenet and his new book  in which he shamelessly revealed that his "slam dunk" comment was not about WMD and going to war, and Mr Alberto "The Amnesiac  " Gonzalez, Bush's Tejano, and his role in firing US attorneys for prosecuting corrupt Republicans and not prosecuting Democrats in Congress...but, I only have a few more years left on this planet.

Yep, these are the people we are pleading with to save us from Meles Zenawi. Pretty depressing, isn't it?