The "Shaha-WolfowitzGate": It's like nabbing Al Capone on tax evasion ...

David Corn makes writes a sad but very good snippet on the "The Fall of Wolfowitz"?

You can

* make a misleading case for war,
* support a secret internal Pentagon
effort to manipulate and hype intelligence that supports the case for war,
* invade another country without preparing for what comes after the invasion,
* dismiss the warnings of a general who says hundreds of thousands of troops
will be necessary to secure that country after an invasion,
* falsely claim
that the war will cost little,
* assume (wrongly) that the people of the
invaded country will be nothing but pleased,
* and mismanage post-invasion
operations and plans and, thus, fail to prevent societal conflict and chaos that
causes the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians.

And nothing happens. In fact, you are subsequently awarded with a medal and a plum job.

But if you use your influence to get a pay raise for your girlfriend, well,
then, you're in big, big trouble. See here.
It's sort of like nabbing Al Capone on tax evasion.