TO BE FAIR, IT'S NOT MUCH OF A WAR:

The Not So Big Defense Budget (Michael Goldfarb, 2/04/08, Worldwide Standard)

A more useful metric is the percentage of GDP allotted to defense spending, and at roughly 4 percent, the military budget is well below the average during the Cold War. Even in the 1980s, when the country was nominally at peace, spending hovered around 6 percent of GDP. We are fighting the war on terrorism on the cheap, and compared to earlier wars, we spend next to nothing on the war in Iraq. If anything, people should be outraged that this country devotes so little money to the war effort...which may be why not a single candidate for president, even among the Dems, is calling for a reduction in defense spending. We're fighting on a shoe-string budget.