[oldbrowser]

A huge percentage of this is the pay of the military who would be getting it even if they were still in the states preparing for action.

I wish someone would breakout the incremental costs of going to war in Iraq as compared to the cost of having a standing military at home (or stationed throughout the world). I would think that at least half would be fixed costs.

[avacado]

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33110.pdf

From the document above (page 6) it states that 94% of the funding (94% of $864billion) goes to the DOD to cover incremental war-related costs, that is, costs that are in addition to normal peacetime activities.

[gov_bean_ counter]

I wish some Pubbie would grow a set and tell the a$$hat SIGIR chief and his paid propagandists to go to he!! then demand the same scrutiny of the bailout spending as the Dems have of a reconstruction effort in a FREAKING COMBAT ZONE.

... end of mini-rant.