Pentagon budget proposal won't have war estimate

[maddezmom]

Pentagon budget proposal won't have war estimate
Last year, costs were explained, but funds weren't given


WASHINGTON — When the Pentagon unveils its budget request for the next fiscal year Monday, it will back away from a commitment it made to Congress a year ago — to estimate how much the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are likely to cost.

Last year, for the first time since the wars began, department budget officials agreed to detail war-spending plans for the year ahead at the same time it told Congress what its normal operating expenses would be.

But this year, while the Pentagon will go into great detail on how it plans to spend the billions of dollars it receives to run its normal operations, it will include only what officials call a "placeholder" for war funding.

According to budget documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times, the Pentagon will ask for $515.4 billion for its normal budget, a 7.5 percent increase over last year's levels, including $183.8 billion for new weapons systems. The fiscal year begins Oct. 1.

more:http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/5508877.html

[ixion]

1. so we're spending the better part of a TRILLION dollars a year on death and desctruction

some one want to trying and convince me that this is not evil?

Good luck.

[RC]

2. Yeah, but them's not white Christians we're killin'. So, see it's ok.