"How much of that $35 billion is going to go straight back into the coffers of Bush's friends in the pharmaceutical industry anyway?"

Probably a decent sum. Capitalism at its best. Help people, and help make the stockholders (US and non-US) richer at the same time.

Making money does not take away from the fact that lives will be saved. I don't know what the UK rules are, but in the US when people make a charitable donation they get to take a tax deduction for it (thereby making them richer than if they did not take the deduction). Does that mean the donation should be scorned?