Reply #5: Without the big slush fund, Presidents would have to go hat in hand

[Warpy]

and have Congress declare war instead of sending them halfway around the planet because some corporate office started to scream like their nuts were in a vise or some fat cat screamed communism or some corporation saw a natural resource that had a bunch of inconvenient brown people who didn't want to be moved sitting on it.

Without a military slush fund, they'd have to go to Congress. That's why.