ace....if you think Bush should have vetoed the supplemental based on this "bs", he should have vetoed every previous supplemental as well.
Bush's last supplemental request:
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Bush’s own supplemental request to Congress contained millions in non-war related funds.
Contained in Bush’s request were funds for federal prisons, Kosovo debt relief, flood control on the Mississippi, nutrition programs in Africa, educational and cultural exchange activities around the world, disease control in South Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe, and salaries for U.S. marshals.
The request spread additional funding across seven major departments of the federal government. Such items were not only contained in the White House request for this year’s supplemental but have been part of nearly every supplemental the president has signed since the beginning of the Iraq war. One quarter of the money in last year’s $94 billion “Iraq” supplemental was directed at a variety of domestic programs.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/14/bush-pork/
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What it demonstrates to me is that you dont know the purpose of supplemental appropriation bills...although I agree with you that are too often used for pork by both parties.