Wolfowitz to head World Bank?

So I've been out of the country for the last week and I come back to find out President Bush in nominating Paul Wolfowitz to head the World Bank.

And this comes on the heels of naming John Bolton as Ambassador to the United Nations. Thank God for a president with some balls.

Human Scum?

If you think about it, when a North Korean official calls you "human scum" you're probably doing something right.

Italian hostage injured in Iraq

So all the Italians are in an uproar about the death of one of their own in Iraq? So what. As far as I'm concerned the guy deserved to die. And so did the hostage, Giuliana Sgrena. As a journalist for the Italian communist Il Manifesto, she is at least culpable in instigating and promoting the anti-American sentiment that makes it seem acceptable for terrorists to attack Americans and Iraqi civilians struggling to establish a decent society in Iraq.

And after her release, she now accuses US forces of deliberately targeting her. I wish I had the confidence in the enlisted soldiers manning the checkpoint to believe they could have been proactive enough to do so, but how the hell would the PFC or corporal manning the machine gun know who Giuliana Sgrena was? I doubt they've been reading Italian newspapers recently.

As to the Italian intelligence agent, Nicola Calipari, paying a reported 6-8 million dollars to secure the worthless Sgrena's release, does anyone doubt that money will be used to finance further attacks against the Coalition Forces and the Iraqi security forces?

As a result of Calipari and the Italians paying off the terrorists, more Iraqi security forces, more Italian soldiers, more American soldiers, and more civilians (Iraqi or foreign workers) will continue to be killed and kidnapped in Iraq.

I hope Sgrena enjoys her restored freedom. It comes at the cost of the blood of countless Iraqis and Americans working for a cause Sgrena does not support.