It's right here in my back pocket...

Pulling out the ol' "here's your proof, right here in this intelligence report" justification, Bush plays the al_Qaeda boggyman again. Al Jazeera English - News - Bush: Iraq War Is War On Al-Qaeda Funny how we haven't heard much about al_Qaeda for ages. Do ya think it has anything to do with his war funding request? Really?

Bush wants nearly $100 bn to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The House of Representatives is expected to vote on Thursday, before sending the bill to the senate for final passage of the measure that will bring total war spending to more than $500 bn since late 2001.

I just had to laugh at former President Carter's fighting words about Bush and his administration last week:

"I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history," said Carter in an interview with The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette released Saturday. The Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2002 came down hard on the Iraq war, saying Bush had taken a "radical departure from all previous administration policies."

"We now have endorsed the concept of pre-emptive war where we go to war with another nation militarily, even though our own security is not directly threatened, if we want to change the regime there or if we fear that some time in the future our security might be endangered," he said.