A request for an additional $33 billion this year to cover the cost of fighting the counterinsurgencies in Afghanistan and Iraq is expected to accompany the Pentagon’s forthcoming spending proposal for Fiscal 2011. So reported the Associated Press Wednesday (via the Washington Post), citing Administration officials who said these extra funds would go mostly toward the expansion of operations in Afghanistan, where the US is adding an additional 30,000 troops by mid-year. And according to AP, the Fiscal 2011 defense plan, due to Congress in early February, may eclipse $700 billion, a first.
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Dick Cheney, who died Nov. 3 at 84, is best remembered by most Americans as among the most powerful Vice Presidents in history, a consummate Washington insider who had previously served in the Nixon administration, was Chief of Staff for President Gerald Ford, a Congressman for a decade, and Secretary…
