“Troops don’t need bigger pay raises."

So says White House budget officials, Wednesday in a statement of administration policy laying out objections to the House version of the 2008 defense authorization bill. … Bush budget officials said the administration ’strongly opposes’ both the 3.5 percent raise for 2008 and the follow-on increases, calling extra pay increases ‘unnecessary.’

Kiss my ass Bush supporters. This is how your president "supports the troops."