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unhappycamper

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2. The question is:
Tue Sep 17, 2013, 06:20 AM
Sep 2013

How long can the military sling missiles against Syria BEFORE they must go to Congress for a supplemental?

The great sequestration squeeze has finally hit the DoD in near real time. There's not enough money to fund all the Navy's shipbuilding dreamz, all the Army's helicopter/hummer replacement/Ground Combat Vehicle dreamz and all the Air Forces wet dreamz of new takers/ fighter jets/drones AND blow off $1.5 million Tomahawks.

I suspect the two carrier groups we deployed to the Med for this adventure will also cause some additional problems in the Navy's budget.

Expect cries of "The sky is falling!" any time now....

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