"The Free One" will Cost You $2 Million More

From Gannon/Guckert to Armstrong Williams to prepackaged VNRs, the Bush administration has a fascination with being in the media business. So now they want to start beaming Uncle Sam's Arabic language TV broadcasts to Europe. The channel -- Alhurra, which means "the free one" -- cranked up in the middle east about a year back. There are as many as 20 million Muslims in Europe, so the channel's honchos see it as a prime market for expansion.

The European expansion would require $2 million dollars -- part of what the President asked for in his $81 billion supplemental request for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. (CNN)