The President of the United States sent his proposed budget to the Congress this week.
Included in the budget are funds for the regular operations of the Department of Defense. That is OK, if one ignores the waste and unnecessary weapons systems, but it entirely neglects the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As usual, funding for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will be dealt with in an "emergency" appropriation request. Since we have been fighting in Afghanistan since 2001, and in Iraq since 2003, it is hard to understand how the current funding requirements constitute an emergency.
Does the President really think we are so stupid that we believe the reduced deficit headline created by leaving out tens of billions of dollars from teh budget. Or is he fooling himself?
If the latter, we have a serious problem. But, then, what else is new with this President?
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