As Blair cashes in his millions......

[David]

... lecturing poor Yanks on 'Religion and globalisation'!!!! at Yale
University... and doing lots of other money-making schemes thanks to his
previous tax-payer-funded 10 years of disasters, one waonders what he
knows about this subkect, and if it was all part of the surrender
package he negotiated with Bush to go into the war with his eyes closedm
and the British coffers wide open.

The cost of Britain's war on two fronts in Iraq and Afghanistan has
almost doubled in the past 12 months, a report reveals.

Expenditure on military operations for this financial year is due to
reach £3.297bn – a 94 per cent increase on last year, according to
figures released by the House of Commons Defence Committee.

The spending on Iraq will rise by 72 per cent, despite the cutback in
the number of troops and UK forces leaving their last base inside Basra
city for the airport. Meanwhile, the cost of the Afghan conflict, with
British forces involved in near constant combat against the Taliban,
will increase by 122 per cent.

The estimated cost of each of the two missions – £1.648bn for Iraq and
£1.649bn for Afghanistan – is near to reaching the total for both
combined last year, and the figure for Afghanistan is expected to
continue rising as new equipment is sent to the frontline.