I guess this is just how things are done nowadays, but I still find it bizarre:

The Marines Who Liberated Baghdad Need Our Help. Now.

The 1st Marine Division is going back to Iraq. They need medical equipment, school supplies, frisbees and soccer balls for Iraqis.

The Marines want to help children like these and improve relations with Iraqis in the 'Sunni Triangle.' Their first thirty days are the most important. Your donation will have an immediate impact.

$540 provides medical equipment and supplies for a doctor.

$325 provides a supply kit for a classroom and its students.

$100 buys 110 flying discs ("Frisbees").

Any amount helps!

Click here to Donate via PayPal....

Over at Free Republic, people seem to regard this charity as legit. And I have no reason to doubt that it is.

But, er, isn't this what that $87 billion ought to be paying for?