Recently a former aid, giving evidence against him, said he was running short of funds. Therefore, if he was the instigator of the attacks on the US, another sponsor was likely to be involved.
Most of these projects were supposed to be done last year. If U.S. money had been made available, Iraqis could have done the job faster. Whichever way you look in the short term, it comes back to security.
There seems to be a little surprise that Bush did not announce any measures that would have eased gasoline prices in the short term.
in the short term we could see a knee-jerk reaction higher.