after the legislation comes the budget.

29 09 2006: pentagon's all time high budget for 2007 went through the senat: with an extra of 70b=$448 billion in total | wp

still not all generals are satisfied as they are debating already 2008 budget plans.

"Schoomaker refused to give Rumsfeld a detailed Army budget proposal for the fiscal year 2008 ... There is no sense in us submitting a budget that we cannot execute … a broken budget." | slate, how bush wrecked the army, 25 09 2006

However, a good portion of the new money the Army seeks is not directly tied to the war, Kosiak cautioned, but rather to new weapons it wants — particularly the $200-billion Future Combat System, a family of armored vehicles that is eventually to replace nearly every tank and transporter the Army has. | latimes

a lot of times when i look up a general, i get a glimps into his stockmarket portfolio.

"Endorse the administration's "war paradigm" – under which the USA has selectively applied the laws of war and rejected international human rights law. The legislation would backdate the "war on terror" to before the 11 September 2001 in order to be able to try individuals in front of military commissions for "war crimes" committed before that date. | ai

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109th Congress september 11 2001: "127 bills containing your phrase exactly as entered." war on terror: 36