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Can anyone find recent news on supplemental spending for Iraq/Afghanistan? Are we just to wait for the annual budget, and then exhibit surprise and resume debate when we learn it doesn't cover the cost of Iraq for the whole year?

"The White House confirmed Wednesday that its new budget next month will not request a full year's funding for the war in Iraq, leaving the next president and Congress to confront major cost questions soon after taking office in 2009." —Politico.com, Jan. 23, 2008 "Now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe Upon a dwarfish thief." —Macbeth Exit Poll: Will oil hit $200 a barrel by year's end? Responses to last month's Exit Poll:

The slogan is, simply, "bankrupting our future". Use it as appropriate according to the issue you are discussing. For example: "Unnecessary wars are bankrupting our future" (you can cite the fact that Bush is pushing funding of the Iraq war off on future administrations, and that our children and grandchildren will likely still be paying off the wars that Bush started)"Fake intelligence is bankrupting our future" (you can start with the false intelligence about Iraq and other aspects of the "war on terror", move into

8,000 support troops sent as part of the surge to provide training and other logistical support to the fledgling Iraqi security forces that are expected to fill the void as U.S. forces step back. The budget the Bush administration is preparing doesn't fund the war in a meaningful way beyond his presidency, and now the reduction in forces following the surge that the American people so clearly want has been delayed yet again by a lack of military and political progress. The next time anyone asks you about the

Bush budget won’t fully fund Iraq war The White House confirmed Wednesday that its new budget next month will not request a full year’s funding for the war in Iraq, leaving the next president and Congress to confront major cost questions soon after taking office in 2009.

new budget next month

Bush budget won’t fully fund Iraq war

Bush budget won’t fully fund Iraq war

The White House confirmed Wednesday that its new budget next month will not request a full year’s funding for the war in Iraq, leaving the next president and Congress to confront major cost questions soon after taking office in 2009. Keep Reading

deficit spending of about $350 billion (with economic "stimulus" package). Why isn't this a big story? Maybe it's too early in the story cycle. But that will put the national debt at over $9 trillion, with the only forecast being continued growth. Read more at Politico.