Senior defense officials provided the totals on condition of anonymity because the defense budget will not be publicly released until Monday. The figures did not include about $50 billion that Bush administration officials said Thursday they would request as a down payment for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007 Down payment?? BULLSHIT...REMEMBER ALL THE $$$ ILLEGALLY DIVERTED FROM AFGHANISTAN TO IRAQ...NOT ONE FU*KING PENNY TO THIS AWOL-CHICKENHAWK, NEOCON, WAR-MONGERING ASSHOLE BORN OF A JACKAL AND GOP LUST!!!