Bush to request additional $46 billion for wars.
Bush to request additional $46 billion for wars.
AP reports:
President Bush will ask Congress for another $46 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and finance other national security needs, The Associated Press has learned.
The figure, which Bush was expected to announce later Monday at the White House, brings to $196.4 billion the total requested by the administration for operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere for budget year that started Oct. 1. It includes $189.3 billion for the Defense Department, $6.9 billion for the State Department and $200 million for other agencies. [...]
The Iraq war, now in its fifth year, already has cost more than $455 billion, with stepped-up military operations running about $12 billion a month. The war has claimed the lives of more than 3,830 members of the U.S. military and more than 73,000 Iraqi civilians.
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awesome! how quickly ya bend over, harry and nancy….
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:23 pmsmall price to pay for relevance
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:23 pmThis money is all off budget too, if I am not mistaken. Just think about what what the US could do with 1/2 trillion dollars. Look around your communities and imaging what could be done: potholes, bridges, schools, highway safety, tax breaks for the middle class, pollution issues, border security, etc, etc, etc…What would you fix first?
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:25 pmGood thing we’re not taking care of sick children. Whew! Our budget dodged a bullet on that one.
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:25 pmNancy and Harry will cheer their great leader and urge him to spend more — just so they don’t look weak.
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:25 pmBush is expecting to have to cover Blackwater legal bills…….
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:26 pmNow how much was the SChip cost for the next 5 years? Oh yeah, less than 46 Billion, and it doesn’t involve killing of Iraqi’s or US soldiers.
GW666 is trying to make himself relevant to the national debt of the the next 3 generations of Americans.
Worst pResident Ever
Buck Fush
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:28 pmRepigs to America:
Screw the kids… we need bombs and bullets.
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:31 pmIf the money went to soldiers’ families, sure, s’pose… maybe.
But the money goes to Blackwater and Halliburton – Halliburton! – which celebrated its prosperity by leaving the country so they don’t pay taxes.
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9325
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:32 pmPerhaps Busch has a plan, maybe he wants to bring the troops home and finance his war with a totally mercenary army of paid killers.
What the heck, why not, then EVERYTHING will be ‘off the books’.
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October 22nd, 2007 at 12:33 pmThis is pretty expensive for a war/reconstruction that was supposed to pay for itself.
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:37 pmEnough is enough. Not that it will help, but I emailed both of my Senators and my Representative asking that they refuse to vote for any funding that does not at the very least have a timeline in it or better yet, only funds the safe redeployment of our forces.
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:38 pmPresident Bush will ask Congress for another $46 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and finance other national security needs
It always used to work when he asked Poppy for some extra coke — er, gas money…
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:39 pmbut nothing for the kids, right?
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:39 pm$upport the troops or protect our children’$ health and welfare?
Remember the troops are our children.
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:42 pmbut nothing for the kids, right?
Comment by joe cantwell — October 22, 2007 @ 12:39 pm
Exactly. The Republicans will make sure this money goes through, but God forbid they actually fund something that would save lives instead of destroying them. Pro-Life my a$$.
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:43 pmAnd you watch how many Republicans in Congress will say “No’ like they voted for children health coverage.
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:44 pmThey were saying there was no money to pay for health coverage for children.
Let’s wait and see how fast they will push the ‘Yes’ button for this bill.
lets cut more american programs to pay for it…
lol!
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:44 pmYes Yes baby…. Give me more money to kill…. but just F#$% those 12 year old critically ill crybabies…. and their whining about how they “don’t want to die”
God! How great is America ?
kill me
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:46 pm‘Ask’? ‘Request’? More like ‘demand’ or ‘use as political blackmail’. Anything he ever ‘requests’ starts as ‘Congress must…’, and why not since the ‘requests’ are never denied. Bush behaves toward Congress like a braty two-year-old behaves toward his parents; and neither one believes in discipline.
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:48 pmLet’s add this up:
-Reconstruction for the gulf coast post Katrina not a priority. Funding trickles through miles of bureaucratic red tape; unless it involves a NOLA photo op, GWB couldn’t care less.
-S-CHIP not a priority. Prez vetos kids health care bill to feel “relevant.”
But “foot caught in a bear trap” endless military involvement in Iraq IS GWB’s top priority. At least until Cheney talks him into bombing Iran. More Billions required there, Georgie. Screw domestic needs- foreign policy’s more fun, innit…
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:50 pmbut look at the great discounts we’re getting at the pump . . . well worth this small investment of borrowed Chinese funds, no?
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:50 pmIf the Democrats are sincere about ending the illegal occupation of Iraq, they should begin to heed the advice of Dennis Kucinich by simply not voting for any more funds to go to Iraq. As for #15’s asinine comment that the troops are our children, thereby apparently implying that the troops are somehow in dire need of $46 billion, it is instructive to remember what Kucinich has tried to point out, apparently to no avail, that there is already enough money in the pipeline to provide for the welfare of the troops while they are in Iraq. Again, if the Democrats actually claim to support the troops, then they should finally begin to demonstrate that support by cutting off the funding so those troops can be removed as quickly and as rapidly as possible from harm’s way.
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:51 pmOctober 22nd, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Ask and you shall receive, President Bush.
After all, it’s the Democrats who lead the Congress, not some opposition party.
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:57 pmBeyond the “body count” numbers of Americans dead is a number I think is just as disturbing but never see quoted, or at least seldom see quoted, the number of amputees, head injured and mentally ill soldiers. If TP wants to do justice to the real tragedy that is Iraq quote those statistics also.
It’s a common ploy by the conserv666atives to deal in only “body count” numbers because it doesn’t look too bad in comparison with previous wars. However yesterday on the News Hour on PBS, Gwen Eifel (sp?) quoted over eighty thousand troops have been dismembered or otherwise significantly injured.
Lets start doing a better job of laying bare the whole ugliness of Iraq, huh TP.
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:03 pmGet a spine Democrats; just vote no. No more funding for the war.
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:04 pmAnd how much of that sum will be quietly diverted to staging operations for an attack on Iran?
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:05 pmAnd at the press conference this afternoon, there will be exactly ZERO questions or objections by the press or the spank monkeys in Congress or anyone in a position of influence.
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:06 pmAnd the band plays on.
Also, by the way, members are not “amputees” they are dismembered!
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:06 pmWe can’t spend any more. We’re over the debt limit. Authorizing more funds would be against the law.
http://brillig.com/debt_clock/
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:08 pmNOW’S the time for Congress to show their “relevance” and just say no. But will they? No — I guess they don’t have as much of a need to be “relevant” as The Decider does.
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:11 pm31,
Thanks for the laugh….against the law….whoooh thats a good one, hell that’ll stop em!….against the law….man thats funny
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:11 pmWOW…let’s see, $455 billion divided by 73,830 deaths equals about only $6.16 million for each death…what a bargain!!!
clilff
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:26 pmIraq war – Over a period of 5 years, $455 billion and more requested ($91 billion/year)
S-Chip – Over a period of 5 years, an increase of $35 billion ($6 billion/year)
And you can bet that additional $46 billion they are requesting for Iraq, Afghanistan and OTHER NATIONAL SECURITY NEEDS will include either covert or overt action against Iran, perhaps Syria. In addition, more money for Halliburton, Blackwater and all the other war profiteers.
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:34 pmThe chocolate money keeps flowing.
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:43 pmCongress needs to put a stipulation in there that these funds cannot be used to attack Iran or any other country… not that Bush wouldn’t veto it…
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:45 pmhmmm… this must be a “troll free zone”.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:01 pmBush re-re-corrected the Defense Appropriations Bill with another another Supplemental Appropriations Bill when the Administration was surprised again by this follies’ cost over runs.
Bush’s defense of the defense budget miscalculation was, ‘OOPs I did it again’ and ‘ What?, don’t you support our troops?’
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:20 pmBush included healthcare for the veterans and help for Iraq immigrants in the bill, so how handy is that to include expenses everyone wants with more war money. What an ass !
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:23 pmI like the way they fascist bastards veto a bill to help children and follow it with a bill to fund an illegal war.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:25 pm.
Bush wants more money to kill people with.
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October 22nd, 2007 at 2:34 pmI’d like to see a Congress member address their house with something like this:
“We have been sold a phony war with phony justifications and we are again being asked to throw more money at the problem by a principle phony architect of our phony foreign policy. I propose that we pay for the continued phony occupation of Iraq with the only appropriate appropriation, this phony money (holding up a bunch of Monopoly bills).”
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:35 pmIt’s a done deal seeing the democrats haven’t returned to the halfway house for rehabilitation from the battered male syndrome that plagues them. Nancy has another problem.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:46 pmDid I just see him ask for the money in front of family of Michael Murphy after he gave them the “Medal of Honor”? Lt. Murphy’s mother should have slapped his face for all America to see
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:49 pmBush says if you want the kids to come home, you better hand over the money.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:15 pmtake care of the corporations and let our children die and our infrastructure rot. And when things are really bad, the wealthy will walk over the stench and into their new life.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:25 pmSo GWB is willing to spend$46b to kill more Iraqi’s (all of it borrowed), but is not willing to spend $35b to support health insurance for children, on a pay as you go basis. Sweet. Says something about those 30% who think he’s doing a grand job doesn’t it.
And BTW, why does TP insist on using numbers that knowingly understate Iraqi casualties? IBC admits that its numbers are gross under-estimates. All estimates based on scientifically accepted methods for accurately measuring morbidity and mortality strongly suggest that the Iraqi mortality currently exceeds 1 million.
Counting bodies that show up in the morgue, in a country where rapid burial is essential and widely practicied, is not a good way to estimate casualties.
October 22nd, 2007 at 5:06 pmIf Dick Cheney is going to launch an operation against Iran, it would come after he has the added lucre in his greedy fists and the Congress can’t retaliate by cutting off the money.
October 22nd, 2007 at 5:15 pmCongress to Dick & George – ” Here’s your $46 Billion, plus a rider stating that you no longer have to even bother asking us for funding – Just take what you think you need. In addition, you have our permission to declare war, at will, on whatever country has something you want. While we’re at it, there’s really no reason that we HAVE to have an election in 2008; just stay in office, cuz you know best. And the provisions of this act cannot be reviewed by any member of the “judicial branch” of the government. In fact we hereby abolish the judicial branch of the US government. All things considered, there’s really no reason for a legislative branch, either – but we shall continue to draw our pay checks, and enjoy our insurance coverage.”
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:42 pmHow does one go about getting a cut of this action?
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:45 pmYo! Congress! I want another $46 billion for my war. And in case you’re getting a little wobbly on that – here’s another Osama Bin Laden tape that just happened to come out today.
GWB = POS.
October 22nd, 2007 at 11:30 pm- here’s another Osama Bin Laden tape that just happened to come out today.
Comment by Marie
Yep, saw that, thought the same thing.
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October 23rd, 2007 at 1:47 amKucinich is our only chance for survival at this point.
This $$$ request should drop GW’s approval rating to below 20%. But does that # even matter anymore?
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:03 am