24 January 2008
According to the White House, Bush’s new budget will not include full year’s funding for the war in Iraq. That means that the next president and Congress will have to decide how much will be needed to continue the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, shortly after taking office in 2009. That budget will not even fund the military thru the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2009. I has been predicted that the funding will be less than half the annual war spending since the war began.
War spending depends on the recommendations of the top commander in Iraq, Army Gen. David Petraeus, and the pace of future U.S. troop withdrawals. Our international mandate in Iraq will soon expire and the Iraqi government has some requirements about our stay in Iraq but the Bush administration is insisting that Baghdad give us broad authority for combat operations and continued immunity from Iraqi law for civilian contractors. In my opinion the behaviors of some civilian contractors do not warrant immunity.
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