The budget for fiscal 2004 sent to the US Congress by President Bush in the last week of January, 2003,does not contain any allocation for assisting the anti-Saddam Hussein opposition in Iraq, as againstallocations amounting to US $ 25 million per annum provided for in the budgets for fiscal 2002 and 2003. This has been interpreted to mean that Washington DC is confident that Saddam Hussein would be dislodged frompower and a pro-US Government installed in his place shortly, thereby obviating any further need for spendingon this account.