] Bush urged Congress "not to attach to this proposal items
] that are not directly related to these emergencies
] abroad."
]
]
] But the White House attached its extra spending request
] to a measure that is labeled "Funding for the War on
] Terror." Among the extras is $5.3 billion to pay for a
] restructuring of the Army and, to a lesser degree, the
] Marine Corps. The administration chose to not include
] those items in the $419.3 billion defense budget for 2006
] that Bush submitted to Congress last week.

It's funny, but if W tried to say he wasn't a crook right now, I'd find Nixon much more believable. And with this coming from that well known liberally biased rag the... Chicago Tribune? oh, I guess there won't be any waving that flag on this one.

Yahoo! News - War budget request loaded with extras