Military chiefs on the spot?

Several military leaders were recently before the Senate Armed Services Committee to explain why many costs that should have been part of their budget request were apparently left out of the request only to be included in subsequent emergency supplemental spending requests. Apparently much of the $80 billion supplemental request is for items that should have been in the regular budget request. No! Budget games from the DOD? Say it ain't so! Dare we suggest that the fiscal masters of our time that brought us such budget behemoths but military lightweights such as the Seawolf Sub, The B-2 (Flying Turkey) bomber and the legendary Divads anti-aircraft weapon would try to disguise what they were really spending?

Before anyone suggests this is partisan politics, one of their critics is Sen. McCain of Arizona, so sit down and have another oxycontin there tubby.

Oh wait, never mind, Donald "The Don" Rumsfeld said it would be wrong to hide regular budget items in a emergency spending request to protect them from scrutiny. If you say its so Donnie boy then it must be. Not! One of the military chiefs basically says in the article that if these requests where in the regular budget (where they belong) then it would displace other things that are too important to us. Good fiscal logic there fellas, that makes a lot of sense.

I can't wait to hear one of the conservative drones defend this one. I am not against military spending, but lets cut the crap at be up front about it fellas.

You can read the story here, its from the LATimes via Yahoo:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=716&e=2&u=/ap/20050212/ap_on_re_us/democrats