Wars do cost $$$, ya know

The US military is set to run out of funds for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan by September unless President Bush asks Congress for more money. Furthermore, as Knight-Ridder's Drew Brown reports, "Because the Bush administration's $401.7 billion fiscal 2005 defense budget contains no money for Iraq and Afghanistan, the armed services will be forced to pay for operations in the two countries with money that's supposed to be used for modernization and other items."

Considering that the Pentagon is such a financial cess-pool, with funds sloshing around everywhere, it won't be too difficult to shift the money around. But this is only a short term solution; the administration is going to have to make another public appeal for funds sooner than later, which will not likely win Bush any political points with the American people. It'll be interesting to see if they can hold off on this until after the election, although that seems doubtful to me.