Whats wrong with this picture? Obama wants to send 17,000 additional trrops to Afghanistan, yet wants to slash the budget for both Iraq and Afghanistan. Doesn't he know you can't fight a war accoring to a budget?

I bet he is back before Congress by June asking for more money for Afghanistan.

President Obama is putting the finishing touches on an ambitious first budget that seeks to cut the federal deficit in half over the next four years, primarily by raising taxes on business and the wealthy and by slashing spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, administration officials said.

In his weekly radio and Internet address today, Obama expressed determination to "get exploding deficits under control" and described his budget request as "sober in its assessments, honest in its accounting, and lays out in detail my strategy for investing in what we need, cutting what we don't, and restoring fiscal discipline."

Reducing the deficit, he said, is critical to the nation's future: "We can't generate sustained growth without getting our deficits under control."

After what he signed last week....

The budget assumes that the nation will continue to spend money on "overseas military contingency operations" throughout Obama's presidency, the official said, but that number is significantly lower than the nearly $190 billion the nation budgeted for Iraq and Afghanistan last year.


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