Obama Said to Seek Billions Extra for Islamic State Fight

[grahamhgreen]

President Barack Obama is preparing to ask Congress to pay for a multibillion-dollar plan to expand the military campaign against Islamic State militants, according to an administration official.

While the proposal hasn’t been made final and the total amount is still being calculated, it will likely be in the billions of dollars, as Pentagon officials develop options for the president, according to the official, who asked for anonymity to discuss plans that aren’t yet public.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-09/obama-said-to-seek-billions-extra-for-islamic-state-fight.html



He needs to ask for a tax on the wealthiest to pay for this if he wants Dems to hold their own in NOV..

Remember, we just cut 8.7 billion from food stamps.....

[msongs]

1. cut one F 35,that ought to cover it nt

[nationalize the fed]

2. What difference does a few more borrowed billion make

when we're in for trillions. There are no marches, no anti war movement (maybe when a R gets in)

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/

what does a trillion look like?



Those are double stacked pallets of $100's

But Detroit has to use soda cans for fire alarms because they're broke.

Congratulations to Boomers and others responsible- you've looted the country. Can't buy your way out of hell though.

[djean111]

5. The 1% looted the country. The banks looted the country. The corporations looted the country.

The politicians looted the country. To assign the looting to an age group of citizens is just bitter pointless twaddle.
A lot of those poor people in Detroit are boomers.
Congratulations on falling for the misdirection and divisive bullshit, though.

[GeorgeGist]

3. Given that the US has a $600 Billion dollar a year Defense Department,

apparently fighting ISIS is not a matter of defense.

[grahamhgreen]

4. If it's as important as claimed, the wealthiest will be happy to forgo a sliver of their savings to

pay for it

[djean111]

6. No, there will be cuts to social services and the wealthy will not even be mentioned. IMO.

[Baclava]

7. "Obama Seeks $5 Billion to Fight Islamic State" - them "coalitions of the willing" don't come cheap

evidently

[grahamhgreen]

8. Starts at 5 billion..... endus up being a trillion.

[Baclava]

11. Let's see - we're spending 140k per missile to blow up a 20k Toyota pick-up

how many Toyotas are there?


that sounds like one of them math word puzzles - I don't do math

[n2doc]

12. Worse, spending 140K to blow up a 500k US-built MRAP captured from the Iraqi Army

Then, giving the Iraqi's another MRAP to lose.

[grahamhgreen]

13. Abandoned by Iraq army generals some of who side with the rebels. (a few have since been prosecuted)

[Baclava]

16. Can't we just put out a $10M bounty on the top 100 ISIS leaders heads? - that's only $1B

That might shake things up a bit in the old training camps

Plenty left over to buy more Freedom Fighter armies in Syria too

[Baclava]

19. yeah - that too

but it's a target rich environment - one A-10 (if we still used them) could still wipe them all out

[n2doc]

20. It's like a Bizzaro World Toyota Ad!

But of course, that's not how the 'modern' Military Rolls. We need to use expensive missiles and even more expensive aircraft to blow up trucks. Stealth if possible as well.

My favorite gunship for this sort of mission remains the AC-130

[grahamhgreen]

27. So, who sold them these trucks and who paid? Where is the paperwork???

[ladjf]

33. For weeks I've been talking about the fact that the A-10 is the perfect weapon to take on the ISIS

fighters who rely heavily on pickup trucks running up and down the unprotected roads. One A-10 in one run could take out a ten mile long column of the trucks and gunners. They have nowhere to hide. Further, the cost of using the A-10's is minuscule compared to the supersonic fighters we are now deploying.

It seems that our military is hell bent on phasing out our A-10's. The policy needs to be revisited.

[neverforget]

9. Notice how there is always money for war but not

for the people? War is a racket.

[grahamhgreen]

10. Yeah... I notice that..... ALOT!

[bigwillq]

14. Just say no, Congress.

Billions? Are you serious?

Imagine how those billions could help those in need in AMERICA??!??!111

[grahamhgreen]

15. GWB Iraq war was originally estimated at 80 billion... wound up costing 3-6 trillion..... so far.

[bigwillq]

17. Insane. How much is the Obama Iraq war up to?

[grahamhgreen]

22. Don't know, but it's 2 billion/week in Afghanistan:(

[bigwillq]

24. What a joke, and a waste.

So much money wasted, lives, energy, resources wasted on countries that have behaved this way for generations, and will never have peace, with or without our involvement. We need to cut our losses and stay out of this mess.

[nationalize the fed]

34. Sumary since 2001: http://costofwar.com

http://costofwar.com

[bigwillq]

35. Thanks (nt)

[gratuitous]

18. No war until we pay for the last two

I have a few suggestions on where to go for the money. (Hint: Check the donor lists for just about every Republican candidate and not a few Democratic ones.)

[grahamhgreen]

21. + a million... Or billions...

[JEB]

23. Talk about misplaced priorities.

Can we please stop pissing our treasury and our future away in the ME desert? You working stiffs better get ready for the new austerity that will come with this military adventure.

[Marrah_G]

25. But They keep telling us we are BROKE

[grahamhgreen]

26. Guess we'll be more broke.

[neverforget]

28. Never broke for war. For that, there is always an endless amount of resources.

[Warpy]

29. Let him seek it from the richest

since they're the assholes who want more war.

[liberal_at_heart]

30. I'm tired of this. I don't care who is threatening who. Until they increase funding to education,

Social Security, and food stamps I will NEVER support funding for any more wars. I saw a great bumper sticker a few years ago that said one day our schools will have all the money they need and the Defense Department will have to raise money with a bake sale.

[FrodosPet]

31. Bernie Sanders supports bombing ISIL

At this point, I am pretty sure getting the money is a done deal.

[grahamhgreen]

32. Not at the expense of grandma.