Quickhits - Pentagon edition

In the coverage of the signing of the $94.5 "emergency" spending bill to keep the costs of Iraq out of the regular budget, I noticed this, "Congress is also advancing separate legislation adding an additional $50 billion in war funds to keep combat operations running from October through March or so."

The costs of the Iraq war are taking a domestic bite on the military. Fort Sam Houston is receiving termination notices on their utility bills, and has already had to cancel cell phones, lease cars, and cut contractors. I guess training medics isn't all that important.

In the meantime, the Pentagon found the time to issue a 74 page list of talking points for the House and Senate debates titled "Iraq floor debate prep book,"that is "an exhaustive rebuttal of criticisms of the war and a defense of the administration's conduct of the war." If they fought the war as hard as they fought their critics, we'd be out of Iraq by now.