Bush Asks For Another $189 Billion To Fund His Wars
WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush asked Congress on Monday for $189.3 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, another huge request that faces deep skepticism from lawmakers opposed to prolonging the Iraq conflict.Bush’s request covers day-to-day military operation and is for fiscal 2008, which began on October 1, congressional aides said.
House of Representatives appropriators said earlier this month they would not even consider the war funding request until early 2008, and that they wanted to link it to a plan to bring U.S. combat troops home.
But they left open the possibility of paying for the war through an interim measure called a “bridge fund.”
In announcing the latest war request, Bush prodded Congress to pass the request swiftly and without conditions.
“They should pass a good, clean bill as soon as possible,” Bush told reporters at an event where he was flanked by veterans and family members of fallen soldiers.
“Congress should not go home for the holidays while our troops are still waiting for the funds they need,” he added.
In the Senate, Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, has warned there would be no “blank checks” written for the next phase of operations in Iraq.
The Pentagon had asked for $141.7 billion for what it calls the global war on terror earlier this year. In July it increased the request by $5.3 billion to procure additional Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles, which have V-shaped hulls to disperse the impact of bomb blasts.
The documents the administration sent to Congress on Monday asked for another $42.3 billion in defense spending for Iraq and Afghanistan, making the total $189.3 billion.
The administration’s request was outlined in testimony on Capitol Hill by Defense Secretary Robert Gates last month. It is in addition to about $600 billion already approved for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
© 2007 Reuters
Um the American taxpayer ATM machine is out of cash I thought! The dollar is in rapid decline, the dow is going to take a massive plunge soon, domestic programs have been cut to shreds, and the housing bubble has burst. WTF?????
Done deal.
Bush has no problem bleeding the tax payers for money for HIS war, but a fraction of that amount is too much for children’s insurance. Will Congress stand up to him ? No!
Plenty of money for war, but don’t give too much to help protect the health of our children.
What happened to America ??
Congress “doesn’t have enough votes” to stop the bill from being written….err….vetoed….ah….something. What will they come up with this time?
Hmm….vetoed the S-Chip then asks (demands) another gazillion dollars for his wars.
The Democrats will now hang their collective heads and say um..ok.
Next week they (the Dems) will go on the newsmaker Sunday shows and cry that they did all they could.
Thank you Ralph Nader and Ralph Nader voters for providing covering fire in Florida so that the Republicans could steal the election in 2000. We all know that Al Gore would have squandered billions of dollars attacking Iraq in response to an attack launched from Afghanistan by mostly Saudi Arabian terrorists. Nice job.
Okay Congress prove to us that you can be effective: STOP FUNDING THE WAR!!!
It’s time we starting taking a serious look at “W”’s mental condition. He obviously doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong and has no conscience. In a perfect world he’d be in a facility receiving treatment. Clarence Thomas could be his roommate.
Flanked by verterans and family members of fallen soldiers- what a PR scheme. We should use the same technique to argue for ending Bush’s stupid, illegal and murderous wars which do nothing
This headline made me sick to my stomach because I know the Democrats will give him everything he wants for his illegal war.
I may have to take up tatting (a lost art) to save my sanity…
Another “OBL” audio came out. Interesting that they just happen to come out at critical times for Bush’s funding.
Ideally, this bill should be voted down totally. Start bringing the troops home. Shut down most of the 700 bases overseas.
Shutdown the mercenary gangs like Black water. etc.etc.
However, since the Democrats would never along with that idea, perhaps this might work:
An ammendment to this funding bill:
Reduce that $189 Billion by $35 Billion, redirect $35 Billion to the child insurance bill just vetoed. Tie them together.
Call it the “Swords into Ploughshares Ammendment”
“Thank you Ralph Nader and Ralph Nader voters for providing covering fire in Florida so that the Republicans could steal the election in 2000. We all know that Al Gore would have squandered billions of dollars attacking Iraq in response to an attack launched from Afghanistan by mostly Saudi Arabian terrorists. Nice job.”
Mr. Chimp,
Yes we all know that Al Gore would have done the same thing as you because, after all, you two belong to the same two-party “system”.
Don’t thank Green voters for putting you in the driver’s seat, thank your buddies the Dumbercraps who allowed your buddies to steal the elections and who continue to write blank checks to fund your criminal enterprises.
the greens and nader have nothing to do with the the present administration and EVERYTHING to do with trying to change the “system” which is nepotistic and criminal.
give credit where credit is due!!!
love,
hd
Jerry1208, you may have the best option in our extremely imperfect world. If we just could add a troop reduction provision to the appropriation bill maybe we’d make a dent in the war machine.
Doesn’t it feel like our so-called leaders are intent on destroying our nation? Bush logic is insane, unless . . .
Thank you hellodarling, well said
Not a dime more. We shouldn’t be there. Money talks. Bullshit walks. Watch Congress walk. I won’t vote for anyone who votes for this additional money. I pledge to work hard against democratic collaborators. This is insanity and profits only Halliburton et al. How much money can these greedy bastards pilfer before we put a stop to it? How evil and stupid does an administration have to be before they are impeached? I guess we’re about to find out.
I propose we just give Bush and his pimps all of the money in the treasury, including the social security fund, next year’s taxes, all the sales taxes from every state, and finance any island of his choice, not American owned, in return for him and his criminals (you know who you are) just going away. The American economy and all social programs could and would recover from absolute zero without the neo-cons much faster and safer than we can with them here. I know I know, just another optimistic pipe dream like peace or sanity…
**”Another “OBL” audio came out. Interesting that they just happen to come out at critical times for Bush’s funding.”**
I also found it interesting that OBL mentioned that it is time for all to unite under one Islamic nation and not follow specific groups or leaders. This makes justification for the “War on Terror” and even a strike on Iran more plausable for Bush by stating that the enemy is everywhere, not just in Iraq.
This isn’t to be funny. But seriously: What would Bush have done with his 8 years if it weren’t for OBL?
Single-payer health care?
Harry Reid replied that this “is not a rubber-stamp Congress.” Yawn, yawn, yawn. See you at the bill signing.
This is taxation without representation! No money for more war, Democrats! Wake up Republicans - you’re bringing this country to ruin. What the devil is wrong with you? Why did you run for Congress? To give our succeeding generations death and poverty because of these assinine wars?
Why don’t you all go home and stay out of politics. You are doing no good.
Nader in 2008!
I’ll vote for him even if he isnt on the ballot.
The only worthy candidate.
This is the taxpayers subsidizing the oil companies. Their greed started this whole mess, we went to war to seize the resources the coveted, and we won’t leave until the Iraqis capitulate and pass legislation that “privatizes” their wealth to the multinationals.
Shameful.
What Bush wants, Bush gets. Democrats in Congress are weak kneed and lack character. They will, again, give our beloved president what he wants and be dumped on once more.
what’s it gonna take to turn the tide?
what are we gonna make with our desires and intentions?
“Offer a vibration that matches your desire, rather than offering a vibration that keeps matching what is.” (Esther Hicks/Abraham)
claudius,
“Harry Reid replied that this “is not a rubber-stamp Congress.” Yawn, yawn, yawn. See you at the bill signing.”
No, it’s a Please-Screw-us-in-the-arse-again Congress.
I’m begging you, Nader…YOU can win this one. Get Kucinich as your running mate.
It’s going to take millions in the streets to stop funding this war, to abolish the Federal Reserve System, incarcerate the perps behind the 9/11 false flag fiasco and restore this nation to the people. ANY TAKERS?
Well, folks, here it comes, get ready. The Democratic Party Scapegoat & Slander machine is already greasing up the big guns to attack and attempt to destroy any and all dissenting progressive parties or candidates who dare to take a stand for REAL DEMOCRACY and an end to the warmongering of the corporate-imperialist duopoly in 2008.
I can see commander_n_chimp and his CD troll buddies now, standing together in a corner, stamping their feet, and whining like spoiled children, “But we ARE better than the Republicans! But we ARE better than the Republicans! Can’t you see?!”
Oh my, my, my! We have for “leaders” a sick pack of lost losers who missed the fundamentals of how to get along with others in a sandbox. All they know is “me” and “mine!” All they want is… EVERYTHING!!!!
This has become a bottomless pit and this cowed Congress we have cannot muster the courage to stop it. This bunch would have ridden Enron to the bottom.
It’s time not only for the troops to mutiny, but also the American taxpayer.
Listen President Bush, you’ve allowed Wall Streeters to rape the markets, and when the markets cave in from their abuses, you guys turn around and give those money changers the keys to to vault with unconscionable bail-outs……. GET THE MONEY FROM WALL STREET.
Today California literally is going up in flames from the Mexican border to as far north as Point Magoo in Ventura County, and from the coast to the Inland Empire of San Bernardino County - a huge area. Hurricane force winds are driving fire through a landscape parched by the worst drought on record and in temperatures nearing triple digits. The air is heavy with ash and smoke. Climatologists are saying they have never seen anything like it. Nero fiddles while Rome burns and history repeats itself. And yet, I think that it is a good thing that the U.S. is destroying itself. We have become a malignant cancer on the face of the planet. We need to be destroyed so that other nations and peoples may have the chance to live in peace and prosperity. Once this country lies in ashes we can begin the work of rebuilding it together in a purer form.
Yes, this is taxation without representation, as ddell413 says. And thomas j hussey is right! Tax mutiny! We are subsidizing oil companies. Government officials are signing away our money, and refuse to hear what the majority of the people in this country are saying. What will it take to stop it?
We should stop paying our taxes. Income tax is the government’s main revenue. Half of it goes to military funding (http://www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm). Imagine if everybody who is pissed off about this war spending stopped paying income taxes and instead spent that money on worthy community projects. Please look it up and consider it.
http://www.warresisters.org/wtr_menu.htm
Termite..So, instead of coming together in common cause to fight the evil that besets us, your suggestion is to resign to our fate, bury our dreams, sweep up the ashes and start again. And what will be different THIS time?
I mean, when the “evil” comes again..the greed, avarice, ego and power. Will we relinquish yet again? It’s always going to be there and sooner or later we’ll have to confront it and NOT GIVE IN!! Why not get in the streets NOW? “And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right……MLK
Mr. Rogers says,
“Hello Mr. Congressman, can you say “Hell no, fascist warmonger”? I thought you could… It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood…
-I’m- certainly taking action in the streets. Though I will not say what I have done (here’s a hint: the govt is afraid for you to find out).
I’m sure the congressional collaborators will do their job. What happens to collaborators?
OBL has shown himself competent at manipulating the american political brinkmanship. Bush has followed OBL’s published strategy(he has never been coy about this) and he knows how the american people react to him. Those tapes come out precisely when Bush needs an extra boost. The CIA has even publicly admitted as much.
A troop reduction amendment on any spending bill is wholly unrealistic. Bush will threaten veto, and Democrats will buckle after making a big show about how they are “sick and tired and not going to take it anymore”. Meanwhile, some choice democratic pork will have slipped in during the meeting to reconcile the two chambers bills.
I thought this “war” was supposed to pay for itself with Iraqi oil revenues….
Ireneus is right. The Dems will give him every penny he asks for. Ending the war too soon, they’ve been told by their fancy over-paid consultants, would hurt them in 2008. They so much enjoyed coming to power on the blood of dead Americans and Iraqis in ‘06, that they want to see if they can get more power that same way in ‘08. I love dem Dems!!!!!!
Hi Willybill,
I appreciate the chance to dialogue. No, I don’t think we should roll over and play dead. Of course we should keep fighting to restore peace, justice and the planet. But I see so many progressives getting so depressed because our efforts are having no short term effect; i.e. will the dems play dead again on the war funding request? Of course they will. I do believe, however, that our efforts will have a long term effect, but only after this empire has died, as all empires based upon greed and the lust for power inevitably do. The U.S. is in its teenager on steroids phase of life, and that must pass away before a more mature country can evolve. Empires that have collapsed and rebuilt are a bit more sane. Look at most of the countries of Europe in which the citizens have demanded and obtained a more or less working health system, and many other societal benefits, for example. So don’t worry, I’m working right along side with you, but I am just not sad that the empire is dying and that I may have to wait a few years to see the results of our labor. I know I was waxing poetically (though obviously not very clearly!) in my earlier post. The irony of the whole southern part of my huge state burning up while Bush and Congress spend our last dime on attacking other countries was just screaming for comment!
It’s time that all the Democrats gave a collective finger to Bush, and tell him to burn in hell. They need to grown some balls and stop thinking about what some sociopath neocon thinks about them. They need to think about the damage that this idiot has done to our country. They need to listen to their conscience.
“I thought this “war” was supposed to pay for itself with Iraqi oil revenues….”
Well … It probably does!
Profit = Income - Expenditure
Or at least it is supposed to, but the equation assumes that the income goes to the same body that the expenditure came from. The trouble is that the Income went to KBR, Haliburton, Blackwater, Enron etc, while the expenditure came from the middle class taxpayers.
How anyone can label the biggest spending administration in history “conservative” is beyond comprehension. What are they conserving? The profits of the war profiteers, the privileges of the rich, the social hegemony of the religious right and their own self-aggrandizing lust for power. These disastrous wars are being financed on credit, to be paid for by our children, grandchildren, and generations ad infinitum. We’re also content to hand over to them a badly degraded, almost unlivable planet and a badly degraded constitution. When will the majority of Americans finally say “enough” and take to the streets, the phone lines and the net and make their displeasure clear and cogent to the negligent Democrats and neocon Neandertals in Congress?
“Congress should not go home for the holidays while our troops are still waiting”…to come home!
I hate to say it but I told you so, don’t mind my preachin’ to you
I said “don’t trust ‘em, baby” now you know
You don’t know ev’rything there is to know in school.
Wouldn’t believe me when I gave advice, I said that he was a tease
If you want help you better ask me now
So be sincere, convince me with a “pretty please”
Laugh, laugh, I thought I’d die
It seemed so funny to me
Laugh, laugh you met a guy who taught you how it feels to be
Lonely, oh so lonely
“Bush Asks For Another $189 Billion To Fund His Wars”
Bush never ASKS for anything, he DEMANDS and Congress goose steps in rhythm to his barking orders.
Remember: No veto override is needed. You just tell Bush: No withdrawal timetable; no funding. And, the funding is only to be used to withdraw. (After which you impeach the man.)
A Billion Here, A Billion There
Pretty soon it’s not real money anymore
but only Bush/Cheney Script.
I remember collecting postage stamps as a child and was amazed at the ‘overstrikes’ on German postage stamps. Two or three or four zeros added as the war went on. That can’t happen here because our Looter-In-Chief has already thought of that. US Postage is now ‘Priceless’ as anyone can planely see. Now, if we need to ask how much a stamp costs, we can’t afford it!
This nation has gone completely mad.
Bush asks for $189 billion while the US economy is faltering, voters are disgusted, and his own presidential approval numbers are 24%.
Question: What will be the response of the Democratic Congress?
Answer: Dems will approve whatever he asks. “Want some revised Spy Laws with that, Massah? Yes suh!!!” Bush gets what he wants, even though he is despised by people around the world, and, increasingly, by the citizens of the United States.
New York Times runs apologetic editorials saying that “Democrats caved” to anti-terror pressure. (Meanwhile public opinion polls put anti-war sentiment at an all time high of over 70%–but Democrats still “cave” to public pressure.) Mainstream corporate media publishes lickspittle fawning articles about Hillary and all the neo-con fascists in the GOP race, while simultaneously labeling Kucinich, Gravel, and Ron Paul “nutcases” because the don’t support the war in Iraq or bombing Iran.
War continues while military threats are hurled at Iran. Angry liberals cry out for Impeachment, with no relief in sight. US casualties continue to add up while neo-con chickenhawks who never wore uniforms boast about the “need to win this war”. Cheney continues to make scary psycho war speeches from his Vice Presidential Bully Pulpit.
The price per barrel of oil skyrockets while the dollar sinks; corporate lickspittle news media refuses to acknowledge inflation OR recession, while nation is in the grip of both at the same time.
2008: Hillary inherits what is left of the US in smackdown election.
War continues unabated.
Didn’t the Democrats already say they wouldn’t give him a blank check? How many times are they going to renege on their own promises?
Of course the feeble Democrats will present the Bush-Cheney Crime Syndicate with the billions of dollars they demand. Disgusting….
US Suspends Iraq Audit of DynCorp
By PAULINE JELINEK – 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department so badly managed a $1.2 billion contract for Iraqi police training that it can’t tell what it got for the money spent, a new report says.
Gosh! Bush and Congress have stolen so much from our treasury that they can’t even keep track of it. It’s no wonder that there is no money for our children’s healthcare. Or education except for right wing theology. Or the retirement and healthcare the elderly have paid for all their lives. And now the Corporations are dangling a New and Improved bunch of candidates for the voter’s confoundment. I just mailed in a ballot with neither ‘R’ or ‘D’ selected and sent some more money to the Greens. Welcome to the New American Century…
But if Congress doesn’t approve the bill, the other kids might not like them!
I know it’s become cliche at this point to cite Orwell’s 1984, but it is just so apt. He explains it so well in the revolutionary pamphlet that Winston reads in the middle of the novel:
The point of endless war is to drain the treasury at home in order to preserve inequality. If there is money at home, then people are healthy and educated and therefore potential rivals for power. Sick, indebted, and uneducated, we are the perfect proles. No challenge whatsoever to the wealthy elite, the profiteers.
When my college students read this, they were bug eyed. I just hope the message got through.
Greenskier, there is too much profit to be made to drug companies, health insurance company’s, for profit health care from children.
Corporate America need to capitilize on children who now suffer from ADD, ADDHD, allergies, learning disabilities from breathing the air, drinking the water the chemicals in the food! Money, money, money!
I have gut feeling Iraq is going to demand that USA leave very soon. I also have a feeling if they don’t……they will be escourted out of there.
Whats just another $189B? Don’t worry folks, everything is under control.
Duh. I have not been able/allowed to work since 2003. Post stroke conditions here. Disability? NO! Social Security? NO!
Rent/utilities/insurance/maybe food/gas? Only if you pay as you go!!!!!
My credit cards were used and now are cut off because of a credit crunch in America! I spent what I did not have, just as America has done. If it is good for America, it must be good for me.
Well now, just another $189B, well, it must be good, so just do it for a BETTER WORLD for you and me!
It’s time that all the Democrats gave a collective finger to Bush, and tell him to burn in….
Whatever, it is time for Americans to stop voting for the “chosen candidates”, who are bought and paid for by the real rulers of our nation, through campaign contributions to cover whatever costs it takes.
We only are told to choose between these 2 choices. Both choices are “owned” by those that paid for their campaigns. Whoever wins will be told to take care of the interest of those that bought them. No more, no less.
Voters need to choose which candidate will stand up for what is good for them, not the corporations. Find a candidate that is talking and pledging to stand up for the rights and liberties of WE THE PEOPLE and not we the corporations, that keep you in fear of losing your jobs, homes, and ability to provide for your loved ones, UNLESS you bow down and do what we make you do…
Everybody tells ms that Hillary is the next president and she is all in favor of war and lots of profits for the Military-Industrial-Congressional complex and the oil barons, so there shouldn’t be any problem in funding an endless war. If we run out of money, we’ll probably attack Switzerland for their gold reserves and strip their banks, then hit China to tear up our I.O.U.S.
What’s that? Do you feel a draft? We’ll just conscript anyone under $100,000 per year and use them up like we are using the kids today. Use them up and throw them away like toilet paper. Does anyone remember the Horst Wessel Song?
In my three score and ten, we thought we had them whipped, and now they are here, running the store. Ah well, Heil Bush, Heil Hillary, Heil whoever inherits the jackboots. Does anybody want a used Constitution? Its in Bush’s shredder, so you’ll need a lot of tape, but it was a pretty neat document. Maybe someone can use it.
How about a little ‘win-win’.
Stop the virtual fence, bring the troops and contractors home, so they can secure our borders, and put all the government contractors into a brand new agency run with a single purpose, securing the world’s nuclear waste on Mars.
Pay them by the pound, after the product is successfully secured.
NASA could crew the carriers and the United Mine Workers could be in charge of safety.
It would employ people for decades.
People start geting bitten by these walking dead ghouls, see- and then the bit people turn into ghouls themselves, see - and when enough of the ghouls get together, they form a big packs and start devouring whole countries of normal people…. and, and
No, I’m not talking about the movie Night of the Living Dead. I’m talking about that real life thing down there, in D.C.
You know. That thing they used to call The US Congress…
Now being re-filmed
ALOHA !!
GOVERNMENT IS ONLY AS HONEST AS ITS MONEY !!!
The only 2008 candidate that has ever stood up to the Federal Reserve is RON PAUL … Vote RON PAUL and abolish the US Federal Reserve and return honest money to our Nation and then only will you get “honest government” …
Unlimited money printing means unlimited War and unlimited fraud!
I wonder how much net profit will Democrats make, out of the 189 billion, 2, 3%?
Democrats are the reason we’re still at war. And Hillary will say, “It’s Bush’s war”. And the idiots at Democratic Underground will say, “Hail, Hitlery.”
Well.. in the other article about Billionairs.. it said that there are 482 of them. Hmm I figured that if each Billionair chipped in 2.5 Billion.. they would cover that cost easily..
Yeah. I know that Billionairs might not be MEGA Billionairs.. so … ok we include some Millionairs in there too!
This administration uses special or emergency supplemental funding bills so that the President cane state that the budget deficit is falling. None of these special funding bills show up in the budget.
Congress should debate the bill and then pass it with to a PAYGO special War tax on the wealthiest Americans, who have benefitted the most by the Bush tax cuts.
Cutting taxes while increasing spending is a recipe for a future financial meltdown, aka as an economic depression.
What happened to America ?? What happened to Human species at all??
Building by destroy, it began in earliers 1900. with http://tinyurl.com/37d9hw followed
alcohol Prohibition http://tinyurl.com/ytgdz4 ,”Black Tuesday” Wall Street Crash of 1929. http://tinyurl.com/2n42xz , http://tinyurl.com/3bwp82 then Hoffa http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104427/ ,or http://tinyurl.com/yw66zz …WW2.. banking with Hitler http://tinyurl.com/2zflcd ,or Bush family link to Nazi http://tinyurl.com/24r6uc ,JFK assassination http://tinyurl.com/2dp6y2 , 9/11 inside job, military complex force http://tinyurl.com/3e2ky9 ,
money hahahah for the end: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v/HZiosMwLzSU&l=559&t=OEgsToPDskImr9kurLrHN0iEco430Afa&sk=J-e2UhulZI3FEOwTHafl4wC&sourceid=ys
Homo sapiens do you need more, maybe? And among all this “brainy” chain of events we forgat: drugs, GMO food, DNA cloning, ..the perfect ultimate soldier (product) for the 21. century Fiber-optics-nanotube-cloned-nohuman-GMOguttle-remote-controled patriot!
I don’t know why people tip-toe around Bush like he deserves to be treated with any degree of respect. Sliding pieces of paper back and forth, making speeches, casting votes. It’s ludicrous. Where I come from, someone who has performed as poorly as he has, would be grabbed by the scruff of his neck and thrown out of office!
In other related news… another private contracting firm awarded a 1.2 billion dollar no bid contract by the government to train Iraqi Police appearently will not report it’s performance, and cannot be evaluated by the DOD.
Lets hand out more no bid contracts
and Once again, absolutely no Leadership on this issue from Clinton or Obama.
Torture, Civil Liberties, 1st amendment issues etc etc… the list goes on
NOTE TO CONGRESS FROM A FED-UP ELECTORATE:
Please ask Mr. Bush how much profit he is committed to handing over to his campaign contributers, and let us, the Fed-up and worn-out American Public know how much that promised amount is, so that instead of waging war to get it to them, we can just make out the check now, bring this war to an end. If we write the check now, those of us who are working one job, can take a second and those who are working two, can take a third, and so on.
But we cannot continue to bury our young sons and see those wounded sent home to a lifetime of suffering. Just tell us how much you want. Please!
What, about $500 Billion so far for the Iraq war and Bush keeps on spending. Now, they’ll try and tell us, “The Democrats want to raise taxes.” WELL, DUH!!!!!!! If Bush and this admin were fiscally responsible, additional taxes would be unnecessary. As for Iraq, PULL EVERYONE OUT NOW. Tell the Arab League to handle it. Oh, we won’t do that? Why? IT’S ALL ABOUT THE OIL!!!!!!
Coyotita October 23rd, 2007 10:18 am
I like the modest proposal… I think it would make a good campaign slogan too, embarassing the war profiteers and the Neo-cons. “Just cut them checks for tens of billions of dollars, government handouts…the war is not needed, just bribe them into shutting up.”
Just keep giving them more and more money; the money that doesn’t really exist, except in imagination.
Even smelt down gold, and pour it down their throats untill they’ve had enough.
The Dems will continue to pass their “bridge funds” so they can on one hand tell the US public they are not funding the war and at the same time fund it! Mind boggling.
Anyone who supports the Democrat or the Republican parties needs their heads examined. THEY DO NOT REPRESENT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!! They only represent the small portion of the public that really rules this nation (the wealthy).
“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”
Abraham Lincoln
You are correct……Ireneus
PELHAM, N.H. –Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said Monday that a new message from al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in which he scolds his followers in Iraq proves that U.S. efforts there are succeeding.
“Basically he encouraged the extreme elements — al-Qaida in Iraq particularly in the Sunni areas — to join together and be more effective in bringing terrorism and murder and suicide bombings to Iraq and to Anbar province,” McCain said. “It’s a clear sign that we are succeeding in Iraq because people got very tired of al-Qaida taking their young women, killing their young women, killing their people, and acting in the most brutal fashion that they are.”
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/10/22/mccain_bin_laden_reveals_us_success/
Just in time for Bush to get some more cash.
Pleasethink is right on. The MSM will call them unpatriotic, will say they are not supporting the troops, etc. They must know that non of them will be reelected by continuing to fund the war. Either that, or they are scared senseless by some intimidating factors that we know nothing about. Has anyone told the Democrats that they are the Majority Party now? Every democrat that votes to keep funding the war should be tried for premeditated murder. They know darn well that there will be untold numbers of dead and they will be entirely responsible. That has to be a bit difficult to live with.
Halliburton’s profits were up %19 last quarter, $700+ million net profit for 3 months. One of the few major companies doing really well, really really well. Dick Cheney, Halliburton, conflict of interest, collusion, criminal.
It takes 50% of the House of Representatives to initiate a budget bill. Simple: don’t introduce this one.
Should a few Democrats vote their true colors and vote with Republicans, the war funding can still be stopped.
It takes only 41 Senators to filibuster a budget bill. The Democrats have 50 (including Bernie Sanders but not including Lieberman.) With 9 pro-war votes, 41 Senators can stop the war.
We were told in 2006 to vote for Democrats to stop the war. I didn’t believe it, but a majority of voters did. Will you believe it in 2008?
Tony Benn, the great British socialist, said”…if you can spend money to kill people then you can spend money to help people.”
Why is it that there is always money for wars,troops,guns, bombs, warships, planes, etc?
Why is it that proposals for Health Care, Better Schools, Environmental Protection, Public Transit, etc bring up grave concerns about taxes and the budget and deficits?
We have spent over $500 Billion in Iraq and apparently a large amount of cash has also “disappaeared” or been stolen.
Now this malformed turd of a President wants billions more!
President Bush the First once said about government spending “We have more will than wallet.”
He got it backwards. When you look a what really needs to be funded IN THIS COUNTRY and what has been spent on Iraq, Afghanistan, the War on Terror you can only conclude that we have more Wallet than Will.
It’s time to quit playing by the old rules! Elect Cindy Sheehan to Congress!!!!