Friendly Fire, War Budgets and a changed man?

Random summary of a couple of things making the news this week (I've been trying to stay away from war commentary, as it's not like I have the perfect answer to solve all the issues, although I do wish we'd never gone in in the first place).

The inquest into the friendly fire death of a UK serviceman is hitting the front page back home. There's been an on again, off again release of the cockpit transcript of the American fighter pilots who had attacked the friendly convoy. Apparently, the US haven't released the information (allegedly), but somehow it turned up at The Sun here. They even posted the full video, but to be honest, the transcript was emotional enough for me, so I haven't watched it. Given the world can now see the video, I'm not sure why the Pentagon is insisting that it hasn't been released (even the most famous of YouTubers wouldn't be able to fake something like this). Maybe it was a secret release? If it was, they need to do a whole lot better with that secret thing...

The other big news earlier in the week (I guess that makes it yesterday maybe?) was the Bush budget he released for approval. Given he needs $2.9 trillion, there's a lot of speculation that without a load of changes, it'll never pass through the necessary approvals to become reality, especially as he's basically announcing cutting back on everything except military, so he can increase the military spending for the next few years. Oh yeah, and make the current tax cuts permanent.

And one more semi-war related story before I shut up on the subject - the CIA think that one of the guys that got sentenced to death for bombing a US embassy in the 80's is now in the Iraq government (which apparently somehow makes him immune from prosecution??? how does that work?).