Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel wants Congress to know that 40 percent of the recent supplemental budget request to train and equip the Iraqi army to fight Islamic extremists will remain fenced off until the Iraqi government matches that amount. The Defense Department is asking Congress for $1.6 billion to train and equip nine Iraqi army brigades and three Kurdish Peshmerga brigades, but the United States will only make $1 billion available at first. "The remaining $600 million would not be...
