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Originally Posted by merrylander
AFAIK Bush also kept the cost of Iraq and Afghanisan off-budget.
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Yes, for the most part. The Defense Budget largely ignored the cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The wars were funded by a series of "Supplementals" to the DOD budget. Congress had to approve them, of course, but the practice of using supplementals to fund the wars was BushCo's idea.
John