Obama seeks $192B as war steps up in Afghanistan By Anne Flaherty

Days after his State of the Union address, President Obama has requested an amount of $192 billion dollars for war spending through the rest of this year and next. If approved, these funds would go toward escalating efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, in order to begin pulling out troops by the summer of 2011. A recent article in the Boston Globe explains that $33 billion will go towards building up the troops this year, and the remaining $159 billion would go toward overseas military operations through 2011. The hopes for this money is that it will be the beginning of the end of the two wars the United States have been fighting for nearly a decade now.