We give more money than any other country says Colin Powell. So there is a simple follow-up question for Mr. Powell. How does the giving compare with other industrialized countries as a percentage of our GNP? Oh so now Norway gives the most, and we are . . . 17th? Whew, I was getting worried that I couldn't find us on the list. (Where is the liberal media to ask that question? Oh I see, there is no liberal media, it's just a Republican slam to anyone who asks an embarassing question. I momentarily forgot that.) And then there is the point that we are spending more every day in Iraq than the amount pledged. But then we have killed as many people in Iraq as the tsunami did in Asia, so perhaps we have to take care of our own mess first. We are every bit as large a destructive force as mother nature ever thought of being.

How did Colin Powell get to be "step and fetch it" for the multi-national corporations, the oligarchy that now runs the United States of America?