Another Cunning Bush Plan...

Facing a chronic shortage of troops, with US soldiers increasingly reluctant to reinlist for [ahem!] "peacekeeping" missions, US President George Bush has decided to recruit mercenary soldiers of fortune from impoverished African countries. These attack dogs, experienced in the brutality and lawlessness of strife-torn countries like Rwanda, Uganda, Somalia and Liberia, will be deployed around the globe at Karl Rove's whim.

United States taxpayers will be spending another $US660 million on the project over the next five years. Like most Bush White House initiatives, it even has a wonderfully Orwellian title: the [ahem!] Global Peace Operations Initiative.

Call me old-fashioned, but I always thought the UN was a global peace operations initiative...?