The bottom line

ON Tuesday last, President Bush requested 77 billion dollars from the US Senate to fight the war in Iraq.

The bottom line
Fri, 28 Mar, 2003 - 00:00

Of this 1.7 billion is set aside to “reconstruct the country” and the rest, totalling more than 75 billion, to demolish it.

Declan Waugh,

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