My friend, Adrien in LA sent this incredible report along.
I found myself, unexplainably, laughing at it's outrageousness!(Note the information in the quotes at the end of her post.) M.
http://www.thenation.com/outrage/index.mhtml?pid=981


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The Price of Dignity
by Anita Roddick
10/01/2003

Check out just the most obvious pork salted into the President's $87 billion request for Iraqi military operations and "reconstruction" efforts...

George Bush, for example, thinks Americans should cough up $9 million to establish postal ZIP codes in Iraq. "How has Iraq made it for these thousands of years without Americans helping them develop a ZIP code?" asks South Dakota Democratic Senator Tim Johnson. "It is amazing. ... What a generous thing for this Administration to do for other people on the other side of the planet, on our dime, borrowing money to do it."

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