Bush/Republicans now want $46 billion MORE for their wars

It never ends. From AP:

President Bush will ask Congress for another $46 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and finance other national security needs, The Associated Press has learned....

To date, Congress has already provided more than $455 billion for the Iraq war, with stepped-up military operations running about $12 billion a month. The war has claimed the lives of more than 3,830 members of the U.S. military and more than 73,000 Iraqi civilians.

And just in case you didn't think Bush and the Republicans play politics with the money that they keep telling us is the lifeline for our troops:

The delays in submitting the remaining war funding request were in part due to unease among congressional Republicans about receiving it during the veto override battle involving a popular bill reauthorizing a children's health insurance program.

Yes, they need the money or our troops will be in harm's way. That is, unless it's not politically expedient to ask for the money to "save our troops," then the Republicans won't.