Afghanistan

I read tonight in various places that the $2.4 trillion budget Bush submitted to Congress the other day includes not a single dime for operations in Afghanistan.

So we're not planning any, you ask?

Well, as a matter of fact, we are. An estimated $50 billion worth. But it's not in the budget and no one is making it terribly clear where this is coming from except that it won't come from Jenna and Barb's trust fund or Dick Cheney's personal gold bunker.

In other words, this budget is just a play. The real numbers are much larger, but they're trying to "soften" the deficit issue until after the election.