Dems Thinking About Cutting War Funds,For Next Year!

   Once again as we peek into the Democratic House of horrors, we see our esteemed clowns stumbling along the road to nowhere? Why would I say something like that?

  It seems that the Democrats are once again thinking of cutting some of the funding off for the war in Iraq. An entire amount of $20 billion out of the $142 billion that Bush seeks for the military budget for Iraq and Afghanistan, for next year! The year begins in October so the itty bitty little cut wouldn't effect the $100 billion that Bush wants now for his immediate supplemental funding.  Source     MORE BELOW

 

                                

 

The administration asked for $141.7 billion for Fiscal 2008, but assumes only $50 billion for 2009 and no war funding after that.

CBO issued an estimate last month that forecasts 2008 costs of $120 billion for Pentagon operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and military aid for the armies of those two countries. The estimates would drop to $75 billion in 2009 and to $40 billion in 2010.

Conrad is following a CBO scenario under which the number of troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan are reduced to 30,000 by 2010.

But over the full five-year window, Conrad said Democrats would actually provide $85 billion more in war funds than Bush requested since he assumes a continued troop presence over 2010-2012.

"We are going to provide actually more funding , because we think the president's budget has understated the war costs over the five-year period," Conrad said.

 

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