I Want a Piece of This Action

It now seems that the "aid" which George Bush was giving Pervez Musharraf was in the form of cash. $100 million a month, cash, no strings attached. That's a pretty sizable chunk of "mad money."

Take a look at this:


Each one of those little shrink-wrapped bundles, known as "bricks" is $100,000; ten stacks of 100 $100 bills, $10,000 in each stack. There are 16 bricks in this photo, or $1.6 million dollars.

Each month, Ol' Perv' received the equivalent of one thousand bricks of cash. He wasn't using it to fight terrorists, the Pakistani Frontier Corps have been notorious for being equipped largely with Lee-Enfield rifles, which were fine for fighting the Wehrmacht during the Battle of the Somme, but are pretty outclassed by opponents with Kalashnikovs.

One thousand bricks of cash a month, twelve thousand a year. When Musharraf falls from power, as he inevitably will, that cash will have bought us a rich harvest of bitterness and contempt from the people of Pakistan.

Way to go, Chimpy. No wonder there is no money for S-Chip.