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To: TimF who wrote (28258)	5/2/2008 1:03:10 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Re: "Nonsense, they are part of the US federal budget." Not YET they aren't! (War costs have yet to have been included in the official annual budgets --- thus far they have entirely been officially 'off-budget' special appropriations items.) Congress said last Fall that that latest appropriation was the 'last time' they would vote for another off-budget special appropriation request for Iraq. (Time will tell if they actually have the backbone to make this latest promise stick....)

To: TimF who wrote (28258)	5/4/2008 3:20:31 AM
From: RMF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Tim...it's NOT nonsense or the Administration would just put the numbers "right out there". The "nonsense" part is trying to "separate" the cost of "current" Wars from the cost of National Defense. It ALL comes to the "bottom line", but NOBODY ever talks about the ACTUAL bottom line anymore. I think Ross Perot was the LAST guy that really talked about National Debt. I thought the most ABSURD thing I ever heard from a National Leader was when Cheney said, "Reagan proved that deficits don't matter". Cheney also had the comment about the "the Iraqis will greet us with flowers" or something like that, but I still think the deficit thing was the dumbest thing I ever heard.