Bush speech
Here.
Key paragraph that's going to get the most play in the next few days:
Our strategy in Iraq will require new resources. We have conducted a thorough assessment of our military and reconstruction needs in Iraq, and also in Afghanistan. I will soon submit to Congress a request for $87 billion. The request will cover ongoing military and intelligence operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, which we expect will cost $66 billion over the next year. This budget request will also support our commitment to helping the Iraqi and Afghan people rebuild their own nations, after decades of oppression and mismanagement. We will provide funds to help them improve security. And we will help them to restore basic services, such as electricity and water, and to build new schools, roads, and medical clinics. This effort is essential to the stability of those nations, and therefore, to our own security. Now and in the future, we will support our troops and we will keep our word to the more than 50 million people of Afghanistan and Iraq.
This $87 billion number appears to be for the whole Middle East operation, including "Afghanistan and elsewhere," and I don't know how it's divided up. I also don't know how the $66 billion figures into the $87 billion. One assumes this will be laid out in the actual proposal.
The rest of the speech will be largely ignored by the media.
