White House Seeks Iraq War Funds For 2008

    The weasels in the White House are going to ask Congress for $100 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan this year in addition to the $70 billion that is already in the till. On top of that, Bush is seeking $145 billion for 2008!

   I'm just wondering why he needs the cash for 2008 unless he intends to still have us in these places. Either that or he and his corporate crooks are going to funnel it into their pockets somehow.

The Nation  Ari Berman

The costs of Iraq and Afghanistan aren't even included in the $481 billion the Pentagon demands for 2008, a 10 percent raise over this year. Total these figures up and Bush is asking for roughly $745 billion in defense spending, a higher number, when adjusted for inflation, than the entire cost of the Vietnam War.

Just pause and consider the size of that number. Three-quarters of a trillion dollars and Osama bin Laden is still at large, the Taliban are regrouping in Afghanistan and the US military is stuck in a civil war in Iraq.

"We have the largest Pentagon budget since World War II, but we are losing to an opponent in Iraq that spends less over an entire year than what we spend in one day," says Winslow Wheeler, a longtime defense expert at the Center for Defense Information.

   One of these days, when I grow up, I want to be a war profiteer like George Bush is!

    We can only hope that the Congress tells Bush where he can go and what he can do with himself. There is no reason to fund this mess with this kind of money just so the U.S. can continue to lose its troops in a civil war and we get no return on the investment.

                  IMPEACH! INDICT! IMPRISON!

 

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