Incompetent AND Broke
So now we know that they manage/anticipate financial concerns as well as they do anything else. The 65 Billion Congress already approved for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have run out. Pentagon is scrambling around in their own budgets to come up with the 12 billion or so they need to keep going for the rest of the fiscal year. Of course with all the outrage over Berger's idiocy, and the Democratic Convention on the other side, we're not likely to hear this, as reported in the Washington Post:

The strain is beginning to add up, the GAO said. The hard-hit Army faces a $5.3 billion shortfall in funds supporting deployed forces, a $2 billion budget deficit for the refurbishing of equipment used in Iraq and a $753 million deficit in its logistics contract. The Army also needs $800 million more to cover equipment maintenance costs and $650 million to pay contractors guarding garrisons.

The Air Force has decreased flying hours for pilots, eliminated some training, slowed civilian hiring and curtailed "lower priority requirements such as travel, supplies and equipment," the report said.

The Pentagon comptroller told GAO investigators that the Defense Department has sufficient funds to cover the shortfalls, provided Congress gives officials more authority to transfer money among accounts.

But, as Atrios demonstrates, even the NY Times is falling for the hype, maintaining that US casualities have fallen off since the handover when in reality there have been more deaths in July already than all of June. I hope once the war gets wrapped in months and months of political rhetoric, we don't totally lose sight of the very real toll it is taking. At least there's a side arguing against it (kind of) finally.