This afternoon, CNN is reporting that, next Monday, the Bush administration will ask for:

• supplemental funding of $100 billion for military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan (bringing total war appropriations for 2007 to about $170 billion) as well as
• $145 billion, budgeted for FY2008 and broken down into detailed form (but subject to a supplemental of its own)

according to National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley. Yes, the President plans to submit this record-setting supplemental war funding request on the very same day that he submits his budget for FY2008 (almost as if no one will notice the supplemental that way). But at least he has finally begun to acceede to long-standing demands for proper budget accounting of war financing.