Bush to request $70B more for war funding

[sabra]

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/politics/13775647.htm

Bush to request $70B more for war funding

Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The White House has told Congress to expect requests for about $70 billion in additional funding for the ongoing budget year for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and $18 billion more for hurricane relief, a Senate GOP aide says.

The details of the requests are not finalized but President Bush's budget for 2007, to be submitted next week, will reflect the totals for planning purposes, said the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Another $2.3 billion to combat avian flu is also expected.

[CountAllVotes]

1. that is right *

Cut spending for the poor, sick and old and student loans to finance YOUR war without end! You really are a loathsome creature from the depths of hell! :grr:

:dem: :kick:

[JuniperLea]

2. Don't you know?

That's how he is able to continue cutting the "non-defense" budget. He takes it out of one column (a cut) and puts it in the war pigs column. Apparently he doesn't realize we can all see the bottom line.


You can bet none of these funds will go toward keeping our military safe.

[saigon68]

42. The War Pigs

Have their snouts in the public trough

[Roland99]

3. Here's 1/3 of the funding right here >>>>>

Shell posts $23billion profit

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2081029

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Probably better taken from an American company

than an Anglo-Dutch one, though.

[Roland99]

9. This war is about protecting their industry, why not spread the wealth?

[confludemocrat]

5. Oh good! More money for VICTORY!

which is what they think the people want in Iraq and they wouldn't think that unless they had polling saying it and knew that most Democrats would not talk about Iraq in much of a different way.

[Just Me]

6. What do we get in return for funding the killing machine?

:shrug: We give and give, blood and treasure, and all we get is a bunch of dead or disabled bodies, and a far more difficult life along with a few MUCH richer corporations and cronies.

This is so sick!!

[gulliver]

7. Can't they make the Iraq/Afghanistan requests separately?

I love the way they try to make Bush's Folly look like a 2-for-1 deal. What's the mix? $65B for Iraq and $5B for Afghanistan?

[DrDan]

8. didn't these bastards just cut the budget yesterday

and claim to be fiscally responsible?????

wtf

[0007]

10. What about the war on poverty and the millions of people

that had Medicaid yanked away from them to help the wealthy though tax cuts.

This is a double edge whammy, in that we pay to get our troops brought home in pine boxes.

[Tight_rope]

11. LMBAO....From who...we are all broke...as in "PO"...can't afford the "OR"!

[triguy46]

12. spending twice more what he cut from medicare/medicaid

We always have money for bullets, never for healthcare. What a dick.

[Just Me]

14. Starve the good government to fund the deadly one.

That's what they want. That's what they are getting.

[pinniped]

13. Cool, take the 39 billion dollars slashed from column A and...

apply it to column B.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

15. MSNBC is now reporting it as $120 billion...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

[HughBeaumont]

16. When do the people start storming the Blight House?

Oh wait, that's not something that civil, comfy people do. Diplomacy and voting is the only way we should expect a world that's a lot more fair for those making less than $300,000 a year.

[bluedog]

17. Bush to Request $120B More for War Funding

couple of hours ago it was $70 billion......how did they raise the amount so damn fast.......whats up with all this crap......anyone know




Bush to Request $120B More for War Funding

By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer 22 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said Thursday it will ask Congress for $120 billion more for the wars in
Iraq and
Afghanistan and $18 billion more this year for hurricane relief.


If approved by Congress, the war money would push spending related to the wars toward a staggering half-trillion dollars.

Details of the requests are not final, but the 2007 budget proposal that
President Bush will submit next week will reflect the totals for planning purposes. The president also will ask Congress to devote an additional $2.3 billion this year for prepare for a bird flu epidemic.

About $70 billion of the new war money will be requested for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year, bringing total spending on the two campaigns to $120 billion for the current budget year. The other $50 billion in new war money will be set aside in the 2007 budget for the first few months of the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. More money will likely be needed in 2007.

The
Congressional Budget Office has estimated that $320 billion has been spent on Iraq and Afghanistan since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, including $50 billion that Congress sent Bush in December.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/budget_emergency_spending;_ylt=Ar0jS6Tc0qBbsFc.af8SM7Gs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

18. $120 BILLION For Wars.....$18 Billion For Hurricane Relief

Sounds equitable to me. Why should we bother spending money on our own citizens well being?

[bluedog]

19. its going into the trillions n/t

[kurth]

20. Well, he needs money for some nation building

in IRAQ.

And Iran, whenever the idiots in Congress give him the green light.

[ClintonTyree]

29. Oh, but it IS being spent on our well being.

We're, "fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here". :puke: Don't you feel much safer now that we've spent almost half a trillion dollars keeping the Iraqis at bay? :eyes: I know I do. :sarcasm:

[Botany]

32. And that $18 billion is exactly = to the amount that

the repugs in the house just cut from Seniors, students, medicine, education, and school lunch programs.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x307192

[SpiralHawk]

38. But the war money "investment" of your taxes is bringing massive profits

to Republican Oil & Munitions & Mercenary Cronies.

So that's something to cheer about, isn't it?

[adriennui]

21. the chimp must be impeached

our country is on the skids and he's asking for additional funding for his f-cking war? let him ask exxon and his saudi friends.

how the hell did we get into this mess? it's obscene.

[CountAllVotes]

40. I agree!

IMPEACH!

:dem: :kick:

[ixion]

22. wow... I just read a piece a couple hours ago that mentioned 70B

Seems that figure has gone up.

Why do we continue to give our hard-earned money to this creep so that he can run around committing war crimes? :shrug:

[SnowGoose]

23. And 12 billion cut out of student loans.

Because if you *really* wanted to go to school, you'd join the army... right?

[ClintonTyree]

24. No

No more money for this bullshit "war". The Iraqi oil revenues were going to pay for this "war", remember? It wasn't going to cost us a thing. :eyes: Just one of many in the bush parade of lies.
Can you imagine what could have been done in our own country with the money we've wasted in this senseless, illegal "war"? The mind boggles. People wouldn't have to go to bed hungry at night, they wouldn't have to sleep in their cars, our children could have had better, cheaper education, increased College tuition aid instead of decreased, basic health care for millions of uninsured........like I said, the mind boggles. It's rapidly climbing toward a half TRILLION dollars, just so bush's pals in the oil and war machine industry can have unparalleled profits. This is so sick.........

[unblock]

25. there goes another trillion....

[Double T]

26. sorry bush, your platinum debt card issued by the U.S. Treasury..........

has been REVOKED.

[samdogmom]

27. God this is so unfair.! My school system is cutting everything!!!...

A.P. classes--gone! Clubs....gone! Sports (well football, basketball and wrestling survived--go figure) but tennis, golf, soccer, hockey, swimming, dance team, and many more I can't remember....gone! Teachers to keep class size under 35+...gone!

When will our country WAKE UP??? We're enriching Halliburton and Carlyle at the expense of us and the U.S.! I'm beside myself with anger--this can't continue. Come on people, WAKE UP!

Oh, and here's the best of the cuts: The computer teacher for middle school (so no more training in computer use) PLUS all of the funds to keep computers up to date. So next year after Windows Vista and Office 12 come out we'll have a bunch of useless rejects produced by our school system.

[truth2power]

45. The neocon agenda

is to destroy the public school system in America, by de-funding it. Your average apolitical, moderate American is clueless about this. And if you tried to explain it to them, they would think you were either a lunatic or a conspiracy theorist.

People who are news junkies and who read, understand how this has been happening OVER TIME. Given that we no longer have what could be called a working media in this country, I don't know how we raise people's consciousness about this state of affairs.

Weapons and prisons. That's all we'll be left with. I never thought I'd live to see the day it would come to this. :cry:

BTW, read The Iron Heel by Jack London. Yes, he wrote a dystopic novel. 1906.

edit: typo

[Frank Cannon]

28. And the Dems will let him have every penny of it...

with NO oversight or accountability whatsoever.

Every day that I think I've seen the worst outrage from this gang of crooks, a new one comes along that tops everything before.

[movonne]

30. I guess we will give another chunck of America to the China...

[Earth_First]

31. Is this strictly operational monies?

Because if a red cent of this money is spent on reconstruction contracts, I will be furious (as though I am not already) However, if this money is spent on operational costs for our soldiers who have no choice but to be in Iraq and Afghanistan, I'd rather they have the monies, we already know how extremely underfunded they already are. Perhaps I'll take some backlash on this, but this is my view of the current situation. Ultimately, we'd end the occupation, however if this is the next best for our soldiers, again, I'd rather them have the appropriations, than not.

[The_Casual_Observer]

33. Is this going to be another off-the-books "supplemental"?

Of course it is, after all, we are at "war".

[spartan61]

34. As a taxpayer who will be paying this outlandish request,

Do we have any say in it? Apparently our "representatives" don't bother to find out how we feel. They seem to just keep giving the OK for bushie to spend our money for his war. In the meantime, student loans, medicaid, etc. are cut. Are we living in the Twilight Zone? x(

OOPs, I just remembered. We'll just raise our line of credit with China. No problem. Our children, their children, and their children's children can pay for it. How disgusting.

[ima_sinnic]

36. excellent point for framing LTTEs and calls to Congress!!

:hug: :kick: :kick:

[ima_sinnic]

35. can we start a new barrage of phone-banking to get Congress to

just say NO to this insanity? will ANY of them call the mob on their blatant looting? sheesh.

[spartan61]

39. I like your idea.

Let's get those dialing fingers moving.

[Miss Chybil]

37. How about we just sell the country to China outright?

This drip, drip is torture.

[KDLarsen]

47. They probably did some polling..

and realised that the sheeple would accept up to $120 billion - and if that's the case, I'm sure Halliburton & the other War Profiteers can find something usefull to do with all those money :sarcasm:

[chicofaraby]

41. Dear Senator Hutchinson

In reference to President Bush's request for an additional $120 billion of spending on Iraq: No.

I thought you were supposed to be conservative?

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I just sent this to both Senators and my Congressman. Have you written yours?

[The Governor]

43. Damn, there goes Bono's tithe.

[Clara T]

44. kick in disgust

[area51]

46. Let's see...

...we have money for this insane nazi boondoggle, but no money for universal healthcare. Riiiiight.