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.