From The Los Angeles Times, 2/10/07:
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-derugy10feb10,1,5906607.story?track=rss
Camouflaged defense spending
The government should stop deceptively pretending that war costs are
separate from the Pentagon's budget.
By Veronique de Rugy
AT THE SAME TIME that President Bush requested more than $700 billion
for the Pentagon budget this week, he managed to create the impression
that he was asking for the much smaller amount of $481 billion.
The trick he used — socking about $235 billion into two "emergency
supplemental" funding requests for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan —
didn't fool the public for very long.
But the longer the White House and Congress continue to treat
"war-related" funding as a separate item from the budget for the
Department of Defense, the harder it will be to control a ballooning
federal budget.
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It's your money, folks. Ya gotta be nuts to let the Bush Crime Family
***** it away.
Harry
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