During the presidential campaign, President Bush promised the military "help is on the way, " and then surprised the military brass by killing a proposed supplemental appropriation for fiscal year 2001.

CNN: Sources says Pentagon to get $6.5 billion more for this year

Pentagon officials said the subject of the supplemental appropriation came up at a meeting Thursday on Capitol Hill between Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and top Republicans and Democrats of the Armed Services and defense appropriations panels of both houses of Congress.

CNN: Sources says Pentagon to get $6.5 billion more for this year

Of course, the main front there is the resolution or rather the supplemental appropriation bill that both the House and Senate have passed that includes a timetable, a timetable for getting out of Iraq, and a timetable that's pretty popular with the American people.

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