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<\/a>By Maya Schenwar, t r u t h o u t<\/p>\n

The Bush administration’s $196.4 billion war supplemental spending request, released Monday, has Democrats reeling. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert Byrd called the supplemental “short-sighted at best,” while House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey remarked in a statement, “It’s amazing to me that the president expects to be taken seriously.” Yet beyond the request’s mind-boggling size, its open-ended aims point to the potentially vast scope of the “war on terror” for years to come – including an undiminished presence in Iraq and the possibility of action against Iran.<\/p>\n

In the newly revised supplemental, more money than ever has been appropriated for procurement – the production of new materials, which may take three years to actually reach the battlefield, according to Department of Defense estimates in 2006. Moreover, that battlefield may change. The 2008 supplemental’s title, the Global War on Terror Request, is appropriately broad, as the majority of the request’s appropriations do not refer exclusively to Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, according to a report this morning in Congressional Quarterly Today, the Bush administration’s request for a “Massive Ordnance Penetrator for the B-2 aircraft in response to an Urgent Operational Need from theater commanders” could be geared toward bombing underground targets in Iran.<\/p>\n

Policy experts say that, as it stands, the supplemental contains no provisions that would prevent its funds from being used to strike Iran.<\/p>\n

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