I was just looking at the lede to the AP story on the president’s new war budget request and it says “the Bush administration will ask for another $100 billion for military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year and seek $145 billion for 2008.”
Can we assume the number of billions of dollars for “diplomatic operations” is a pretty small part of the pie? And what “diplomatic operations” are they talking about exactly?
I hope you get a chance to read Josh Kovensky’s trial report from yesterday. He gets at a really good…
I’ve been having an ongoing exchange with a TPM Reader and friend about the simple question: Why is Mike Johnson…
Today’s Morning Memo prompted some reader reflections:
12:57 a.m.: It’s hard to know the precise significance of Israel’s retaliatory strike or how Iran might respond. So far…
