President Bush sent lawmakers a $70 billion dollar request Friday to fund U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan into next spring, which would give the new president breathing room to make his or her own war policy. The money will be for the budget year that begins Oct 1. It has been stated by Congressional analysts that Bush's request would bring the total spending since September 11th, 2001, to fight terrorism and conduct the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to $875 billion dollars. This request is following the Democrats on Capitol Hill are struggling to move Bush's pending $108 billion request for the current year. Anti-war Democrats are angry at their inability to force the president to scale back on war operations and hate to vote to keep the Iraq war going. Yet, Bush had promised to veto the war funding bill if Democrats add money for domestic programs and present him with a bill over his request. The majority of the new money, $45 billion dollars would fund U.S. combat operations, but there's also $3 billion dollars to deal with roadside bombs and $2 billion dollars to cope with rising fuel costs. Overall, i feel that there is an abundance of things that keep adding to the mistakes of our current president. I find that many of these issues are due to his inability to follow through with his initial word. For example, I would have to completely blame him for the current issue of escalating gas prices. The American people might as well realize that these are issues that he could careless about and will not be taken care of during his presidency. In terms of the money that is being spent, I am not at all in disbelief. For the last seven years, billions of dollars have been thrown towards a war that we have no business fighting and dying in. For some reason President Bush doesn't mind blowing billions of dollars for a war that will have no real outcome once it's finished. I'm truly beginning to wonder when the next president will honestly have us out of this mess. Realistically, thats a question that I'm sure very few people can accurately answer right now.