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To: RMF who wrote (28274)	5/4/2008 4:21:00 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

The nonsensical part of your earlier statement was that the wars costs isn't being put on the books. Maybe it isn't being put on the books in the way you would like, or even you could argue in the best way, but it is being recorded and made public. If it was rolled in to the defense budget than it would be harder to break out the part of the cost that is for the wars. And if you want the defense cost including these wars, its not hard to add the figures together. I don't think that its important to account for it the way they do, rolling it in to the figures for the normal defense budget would work for me as well, or maybe there could be some other method, but as long as it is voted on, recorded, and disclosed I'm ok, whatever exact method they use.