Wacky Bush Priorities

Junior: Cut Back on Medicare & Social Security, Spend More on Iraq

(AP) President Bush, poised to submit his new budget to Congress next week, warned that unless programs like Medicare and Social Security are changed, future generations will face tax hikes, government red ink or huge cuts in benefits.

Bush will ask for $100 billion more for military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year and seek $145 billion for 2008, a senior Pentagon official said Friday. Those requests come on top of about $344 billion spent for Iraq since the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.