Vote Republican or Halliburton will have to scrimp
The Military needs $160 billion extra to cover war costs, but Rumsfeld is being "Mumsfeld" and wants to wait until after the election to tell Daddy Bush that Halliburton wants their allowance raised. Posted at www.govexec.com
Military services seek $160 billion extra to cover war costs By Megan Scully, CongressDaily
The military services and defense agencies have requested as much as $160 billion in supplemental spending for the remainder of fiscal 2007 -- a staggering figure that
would bring wartime costs this year to $230 billion, defense sources said Friday.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has not yet approved the requests and does not plan to make a final decision until Nov. 15, one week after the midterm congressional elections. But should Rumsfeld sign off on the proposals, a move that defense analysts consider highly doubtful, it would double wartime expenditures from last year's totals.
The services' requests, first reported by InsideDefense.com, also would make total fiscal 2007 supplemental spending equal to more than half of the regular fiscal 2007 defense budget. The Army and Air Force requested $80 billion and $50 billion, respectively, for the last half of fiscal 2007, sources told CongressDaily. The Navy and Marine Corps appear to have submitted smaller requests.
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