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Can anyone find recent news on supplemental spending for Iraq/Afghanistan? Are we just to wait for the annual budget, and then exhibit surprise and resume debate when we learn it doesn't cover the cost of Iraq for the whole year? By the way, let's not forget the favorite bipartisan Incredible blundering DEFICIT STIMULUS package "New estimates by the Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday show a worsening situation, with the deficit jumping to at least $250 billion this year and possibly $350 billion once the full costs of the economic stimulus legislation are factored into the equation." -AHEM, not including any wars we may or may not continue to fund!!!
Back on topic. I did not think Dems would make it through Dec 2007 without caving to the administration again-- happy I was wrong. But as suspected, and by virtue of captive Presidential Primary audiences, Dem leadership IS NOT talking- up the war spending issue. This needs to be prominent news & constant debate. I can't even find it on the back burner. I can't even find evidence supporting or disproving the thousands of contractors that were supposed to be fired because "The money is starting to run out" in January. Were the Dems correct regarding sufficient funding in the prior defense budget? Why are they silent?
Where is the news on the $100B supplemental spending package that was scheduled to go to congress LAST MONTH?
Bush definitely zinged congress on war funding during his final State of the Union address, with zero parry from Dem leadership?? WTF?? The only "recent" comments I can find are from the Dems unpopular expert on truthiness- Kucinich.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 10, 2007) Congressman Dennis Kucinich
“It is immoral for Congress to make a deal to keep this war going. It is immoral to keep a war going that is based on lies. And it is immoral to make a deal to claim legislative victories unrelated to the war while at the same time spending money to keep the war going,” “In politics, you can make a deal where one party gets its way and the other party gets its way and that’s okay when people don’t die,”
Thank you 2- party system & thank you election cycle for political feeble-mindedness. I can't wait to get my tax rebate check so I can consume something.
These wars are a great drain on our federal budget. I brought this up before we ever went to war (Iraq anyhow). No one seemed to care. Or they called me Un-American. Told me to go live in another country like . . . California.
The other problem is: We are fighting this War on Terror against an enemy who gets it's funding for the war from Oil Sales. Meanwhile, Oil prices are through the Roof and Oil consumption is at an all time high.
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So, we are funding our enemy in the War on Terror. That's a double whammy. Not to mention how drug users are funding terrorism. Or people who buy diamonds.
Maybe America should just Nuke itself. Cut out the middle man.
Great Googley Moogley!
The Saudis are the real terrorists and we just keep making it easy for them, since at least the 1950s. The same people our shrub plays footsie with and stands in public with to do little sword dances. They talk about the price of oil and laugh. They don't ever talk about human rights.
The Saudis are the ones carrying suitcases (literally) of our money to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran... and build madrassas to train the next generation to attack "the west." Soon we'll decide we are done torturing Iraq and they will be there, too.
We bomb middle-eastern countries into rubble, we come in and interfere with the general order, we insult their faith, we push lazy, ineffectual leaders (like Bhutto) and make big promises on rebuilding. We waltz in and assume that all the world wants is to be like us. Then we again abandon them and their angry, shellshocked, forgotten children to the Saudis.
The Saudis come in droves in their flowing white robes and pretty Korans and offer the kids $300 to give their families if they join the madrassa (in a country where a couple of bucks a month is a fair wage). Madrassa's go up faster than anything. They are these giant bright white compounds with high walls that spring up like mold all over the countryside. They dominate villages, towns and cities. You can see them all over the place in satellite photos. Here the pretense is preservation of Muslim values but the curriculum is subjugation and hatred of the west.
Want a war on terror? Work with organizations like Pennies for Peace and the Central Asia Institute. Read Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. This is the real front line on the war on terror.
Educate girls and women and they will take control of their own nations. In these nations a pencil costs a penny, a whole school for a valley full of children costs $12,000 and the result are people that do not, in fact, hate us. We do not even have to violate the tenets of their faith.
A day after I wrote this, I swear I saw Pelosi on TV news addressing war funding directly, but I can't find it now. Another hallucination perhaps.
Instead, please enjoy the Young Turk response to the last war funding "compromise". Although, I think Pelosi/Reid & Dems get off too easy here:
REggie, that guy is whack. Please delete him. He is about as good as a sports commentator.
Saudi Arabia is probably the most whacked out ass backwards country in the world. I read a couple of books about the origins of Saudi Arabia and it's current royal family. (oh yeah, and I also watched Lawrence of Arabia) The Royal Family is so crazy and corrupt. The country spends Billions on state of the art defense and military systems that it can't even operate. They fund terrorism. 15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.
Why the hell we are in Iraq is beyond me?
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