It's a representation of 900 million dollars in one dollar bills, compared to an average human being.
It also represents nine tenths of the one billion dollars Bush is about to promise to Georgia.
The aid — along with Mr. Cheney’s visit — is sure to increase tensions with Russia, whose leaders have accused the United States of stoking the conflict with Georgia over its two separatist regions, by providing weapons and training to the Georgians. President Dmitri A. Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin have also complained that humanitarian supplies delivered by the American Navy and Air Force since Russian forces routed Georgian forces and occupied parts of the country were a disguise for delivering new weapons.
Administration officials have dismissed those accusations as baseless....
