All together now....

Awwwww. Wolfowitz being asked to step down from heading the World Bank:

The World Bank's staff association, which represents 10,000 employees, on Thursday asked bank president Paul Wolfowitz to step down amid charges that he gave his girlfriend, a bank employee, improper pay increases and attempted to cover it up.

And, sheesh! he promised to get rid of corruption, too.

Maybe we need to see the dictionary the neocons are using. Their use of the words corruption, adultery, morals, freedom, democracy... they all mean something different to them. Like: money, greed, power, lust, and more money.

The controversy has been particularly embarrassing for Wolfowitz and the bank because since he came to office in 2005, he has sought to make an anti-corruption crusade the signature of his tenure.

Last year, he announced a "long-term strategy" for using the bank's funds and expertise to help developing countries rid their governments of bribe-taking and other dishonest practices.

But even as he assumed responsibility for decisions related to Riza, Wolfowitz went on the offensive, implying that the staff's reaction may have been motivated by displeasure with his role in the Pentagon as one of the main architects of the US invasion and later occupation of Iraq, now in its fifth year and exacting huge human and financial costs.

"For those people who disagree with the things that they associate me with in my previous job, I'm not in my previous job," Wolfowitz said in a statement. "I'm not working for the US government; I'm working for this institution and its 185 shareholders."

Wolfowitz came to the World Bank in mid-2005 from his post as the US deputy secretary of defense.

His appointment to the World Bank sent ripples through many at the institution and within development circles who feared that his neo-conservative credentials and close association with the carnage caused by the Iraq war could undermine the bank's image as one of the world's leading development agencies.