The United States has said the hijacking of aid to Iraqis reinforces their determination to organise the country after the war.

Supreme and Most Beloved Leader Rumsfeld said to enamoured US TV crews, "The aid from the Red Crescent was hijacked by the fit and the well. And the aid workers just let them get away with it. We'd have shot those looters square in the eyes. That's the only language they understand."

"This is for their own good", he continued. "We will give them our democracy whether they like it or not. And we will give them our corporations and our devotion to President Bush. And to anyone who objects we will give our capital punishment."