Anger at £7bn cost of war (Britain)

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Tony Blair faced accusations last night that he is wasting nearly £7 billion of taxpayers' money on a failing war on terror after announcing massive sums of British aid to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

In the last three days, the Prime Minister and Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, have trumpeted special funding to the three countries totalling £844 million.

This is in addition to the estimated £5 billion cost to British taxpayers of the Iraq war so far, and the £1 billion spent to date on the British deployment in Afghanistan.

The funding announcements came just days after Mr Blair admitted in an interview with al-Jazeera, the English language Arabic television channel, that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a "disaster".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/20/nterr20.xml&DCMP=EMC-new_20112006

[Benhurst]

1. Tony is a piker when it comes to wasting money on a phoney war

on terror.

We're NUMBER ONE!

:bounce:

[Hard_Work]

2. agree,

Tony only WISHES he could ruin thr British economy as thoroughly as * has ruined ours...