I believe the bush has asked for another 100 billion odd to continue the good work.

Isn't it lucky that this money was not used to raise living-standards across the world? It wouldn't really build many tube-wells, schools or clean affordable public transport systems would it? As it is, using such sums to kill people in Iraq will certainly buy much more global goodwill towards the US and promote democracy far better than any attemts to decrease global inequality.


Blind, blind, blind. But the real factor is an inability to admit they were wrong, wrong wrong. They will spend sums equivalent to the GDP of whole countries, and spend as many lives as neccessary rather than lose face.