All you need to know about how well Iraq and Afghanistan are going, from
The Washington Post:
The U.S. Air Force is asking the Pentagon's leadership for a staggering $50 billion in emergency funding for fiscal 2007 -- an amount equal to nearly half its annual budget, defense analyst Loren Thompson of the Lexington Institute said on Tuesday.
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Another source familiar with the Air Force plans said the extra funds would help pay to transport growing numbers of U.S. soldiers being killed and wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
We need $50 billion dollars more to "help pay to transport" growing numbers of dead and wounded soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan? Wow.
Later in the article:
Thompson, who has close ties to U.S. military officials, said the big funding request was fueled by Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England. England told the services in a October 25 memo to include the "longer war on terror," not just the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in their emergency requests.
How long are we talking about, and how many casualties are they expecting? Maybe we should ask them all about it before the elections...