[Steel Wolf]

Since it's largely a war of ideas we are fighting... why so much money?

It's the classic "dropping a half million dollar missile on a tent worth less than a McDonalds Happy Meal" problem. Our super high tech versus super low tech warfighting style is unbelievably expensive.

It throws the normal supply system out of whack. It throws all of our systems out of whack, and there's no money to fix it until it becomes mission critical to do so. Now, we're out of 'mission critical fix it funds' as well, so General Schoomaker has to take a stand. I'm glad he is, because the costs of this war are going to come back and bite us in the rear if we don't address them soon.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well,....the AP has this report out:

Experts See Lower Threat From al-Qaida ~ (So we must be doing good in Iraq....RIGHT?)

So the Army has done the job....what's the money for? /sarcasm.....