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

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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