George Monbiot, writing for The Guardian in the UK has acidly taken to task US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for his whining about Iraqi treatment of a handful of captured US soldiers:

His prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba, where 641 men (nine of whom are British citizens) are held, breaches no fewer than 15 articles of the third convention. The US government broke the first of these (article 13) as soon as the prisoners arrived, by displaying them, just as the Iraqis have done, on television. In this case, however, they were not encouraged to address the cameras. They were kneeling on the ground, hands tied behind their backs, wearing blacked-out goggles and earphones. In breach of article 18, they had been stripped of their own clothes and deprived of their possessions. They were then interned in a penitentiary (against article 22), where they were denied proper mess facilities (26), canteens (28), religious premises (34), opportunities for physical exercise (38), access to the text of the convention (41), freedom to write to their families (70 and 71) and parcels of food and books (72).

Monbiot then goes on to discuss the well-documented mass murder of Afghan detainees in which US Special Forces have been incriminated as assisting Afghan is the suffocation and machine-gunning of detainees. He then concludes for Rumsfeld's benefit that:

It is not hard, therefore, to see why the US government fought first to prevent the establishment of the international criminal court, and then to ensure that its own citizens are not subject to its jurisdiction. The five soldiers dragged in front of the cameras yesterday should thank their lucky stars that they are prisoners not of the American forces fighting for civilisation, but of the "barbaric and inhuman" Iraqis.

Meanwhile, we get the supplementals. In a March 5 press conference President Bush snapped at a reporter who asked for information on what the war would cost, telling him taxpayers would find out when the White House submits its "supplementals" -- further budget requests -- to Congress, and not before.

Well now we have them -- after the war has started, of course. He wants about $75 billion for the first six months, putting the lie to the neocon war salesmen's "weeks, not months" mantra.
Of that $75 billion, The Guardian reports, $8 billion goes not to the prosecution of the war, but to a sop's worth of humanitarian relief and a lion's share to coalition bribes:

The $8bn for relief and rebuilding includes $3.5bn for Iraq, and $5bn for US allies against Iraq or in the war against terrorism. These include Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Even Turkey, which earlier this month rejected Washington's offer of $24bn in aid and loans in return for letting Mr Bush launch a second front against Baghdad, will get $1bn of help.

On the other hand, California could use an extra $1 billion these days because of its deficit, but won't get it -- despite contributing troops to the invasion, which is more than Turkey can say.