Obama allocates more war funds for Afghanistan than Iraq

Overall, the total war funding under the name of "Overseas Contingency Operations" budget plan represented a 10-percent decline from the war funding for this fiscal year, which is 145 billion dollars.

This budget plan also marks the first time that the war funding is included in the overall defense budget, a departure with the practices of the Bush administration, which paid for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan largely through emergency supplemental appropriations.

That practice worried lawmakers and budget watchdogs, who argued that the practice limited oversight and encouraged profligate spending.

Editor:Zhang Ning