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

sometimes i am wondering what others might have heard. sitting at the same event, listening to the same persons, but being surprised by the questions from the others: where i hear critizism, they hear laud ...

galtung is hard to listen to anyhow, because of his strange singsang. in the end he likes his visions, he likes zapatero and he - as many elders like to say - is optimistic that the young ones will find the solution: he likes the future, too.

for palestine he suggests a 6 state solution: according to the formular: if israel wants peace, they need to be nice to their neighbours and talk with them.
at the end of the day facts and history won't lead anywhere - most needed are: imagination and visions as using no man's land between new borders as national parc. (¿eritrea?)

the word asymmetric has made it somehow from war/conflict/turmoil to asymmetric history, asymmetric peace, ... what they mean by that, they didn't tell.

Etymology: Greek asymmetria lack of proportion, from asymmetros ill-proportioned, from a- + symmetros symmetrical | webster