How much money do we have anyway? Good grief, $50B + $460B + $147B? That equals (if I used my calculator right) $657,000,000,000--this year. Is that even possible to continue? If I ever hear some Conservative railing about "their tax dollars" being spent on some project they don't like, I won't know whether to laugh or cry.
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President Bush plans to ask Congress next month for up to $50 billion in additional funding for the war in Iraq, a White House official said yesterday, a move that appears to reflect increasing administration confidence that it can fend off congressional calls for a rapid drawdown of U.S. forces.
The request -- which would come on top of about $460 billion in the fiscal 2008 defense budget and $147 billion in a pending supplemental bill to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq -- is expected to be announced after congressional hearings scheduled for mid-September featuring the two top U.S. officials in Iraq. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker will assess the state of the war and the effect of the new strategy the U.S. military has pursued this year.
More (with video) at WashingtonPost.com
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