If all the (off-budget) "Emergency Supplemental War Spending" Bills are passed in 2007,

[Toots]

The $100 billion dollar one just passed and the next $141 billion dollar one in September these off-budget war spending bills will be fairly close to the entire Defense Budget of 1998. Remember the Clinton years of "Peace and Prosperity"...History...Remember this spending is being kept off-budget so as to hide it's effects upon our Deficit. A quarter of a trillion dollars just on Iraq in just one year off-budge. Where does that money really go? The troops get most of their funding from the Defense Budget which has almost doubled in the last six years all on it's own..It is up to $460 billion dollars now. A half a trillion dollars. A sum so large it is incomprehensible. Yet it isn't enough..Republicans need (as a junkie needs their next fix) wars and war spending..

[Rydz777]

1. Excellent post. We need to be regularly reminded of how much

this "off-budget" sink hole is costing. "Off-budget" sounds so ho-hum, so green eyeshade, it makes the attention wander. Yet it's part of the massive debt Bush keeps piling up, and there will be two ways to pay it off: either higher taxes (oh, no, not that!) or that silent, creepy form of taxation known as inflation - when your bottle of milk costs $ 9.98 on sale.