Military faces $100 billion in equipment repairs.
By on Jun 26th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Military faces $100 billion in equipment repairs.
After more than five years of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the military’s equipment has been worn out, and repairs will cost the Pentagon more than $100 billion. Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), chair of the House committee that oversees military spending, notes that the Bush administration’s failures to plan for the long wars makes the Pentagon’s plan “to add 92,000 new soldiers and Marines unrealistic.”
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We are occupying 2 countries and they are still funding this with supplementals. Isn’t it time that these costs actually have to go into a budget?
June 26th, 2008 at 11:29 amThe equipment is in sorry shape — and our military is significantly weakened.
Bush’s legacy.
June 26th, 2008 at 11:38 am$40 million a day, spent in Iraq.
Our money, our soldiers, our honor; pissed away in the name of a NeoCon dream of dominance.
Hou Un-American can we get?
June 26th, 2008 at 11:41 amI’m not sure, but I doubt if this is any kind of financial blow directly to the Pentagon. This will be someone els’ debt, probably us taxpayers, and they will give the repair contracts only to who they want to make even fatter.
June 26th, 2008 at 11:43 amSo, this is just more of having and getting exactly what they want.
And the repair & resupply contracts go to …???
June 26th, 2008 at 11:43 amI see another no-bid contract on the horizon…
June 26th, 2008 at 11:44 amHow were the last eight years for you, top 1%-ers? Delightful?
June 26th, 2008 at 12:12 pmThat’s nice. Oh, remember that you’ll need to order more checks than you usually do. Those chickens, though I know you haven’t seen them in eight years, are coming home to roost. Have those checks delivered by January 21, 2008. Have a nice day :)
Cue the rethugs to call for a massive tax cut to pay for the repai….Oh.
Never mind.
June 26th, 2008 at 12:20 pmI blogged about this on VetVoice.
We are faced with three choices. One, we can scale down the size of our military in order to cover the needed repairs. Two, we can keep the military at its current size, and have worn out equipment. Or three, we borrow more money, and go further into debt to cover the costs. None of these are good options, but they are the choices we have been given.
June 26th, 2008 at 12:52 pmIs there anything at all that the Bush administration has not screwed up on?
Anybody? At least someone with more than two brain cells, this leaves the trolls out.
(birds chirping)
June 26th, 2008 at 1:04 pmGeorge W Bush is a cancerous tumor. America is very sick. The tumor has spread all over the world. The rich that keep getting richer allow this tumor to grow and spread faster and faster as time goes by. It is fueled by failed policy and taxpayer money. Borrow, borrow, borrow, and spend, spend spend. The future of this country is mortgaged putting future generations deeper and deeper in debt. Ever since Bush stole the 1st (2000) election I knew this country was headed straight to hell. When he stole the 2nd (2004) it was confirmed. I’ve lost almost all my admiration and respect I once felt for this nation. Now I feel shame. Shame hangs like a haze over Bush’s America!
June 26th, 2008 at 1:23 pmWell Duh. We knew the Iraqis were gonna throw flowers at our equipment.
June 26th, 2008 at 2:01 pmWhere are the trolls to tell us this was all Clinton’s fault?
June 26th, 2008 at 4:14 pmThe weapon to be used was food; even if there was a famine food would be used to leverage population reduction. Kissinger is on record for stating, “Control oil, you control nations; control food and you control the people.” How a small group of key people transformed the elitist philosophy, of controlling food to control people, into realistic operational possibility within a short time is the backdrop of Engdahl’s book, the central theme running from the beginning till the end with the Rockefellers and Kissinger, among others, as the key dramatis personae.
He describes how the Rockefellers guided the US agriculture policy, used their powerful tax-free foundations worldwide to train an army of bright young scientists in hitherto unknown field of microbiology. He traces how the field of Eugenics was renamed “genetics” to make it more acceptable and also to hide the real purpose. Through incremental strategic adjustments within a handful of chemical, food and seed corporations, ably supported by the key persons in key departments of the US Government, behemoths were created that could re-write the regulatory framework in nearly every country. And these seeds of destruction of carefully constructed regulatory framework- to protect the environment and human health- were sown back in the 1920s.
June 27th, 2008 at 11:13 am