Byrd slams Bush with budget report on Iraq occupation

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

By Paul J. Nyden
STAFF WRITER

Congress reconvened Wednesday, and U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd spoke about a new government study warning about growing problems in Iraq.

“As the cost of our occupation of Iraq continues to grow, it is increasingly apparent to the American people that the White House has gotten the United States more deeply involved in Iraq than the administration’s pre-war rhetoric would ever have led us to believe,” Byrd said.

Today, the United States has 136,000 troops in Iraq, 34,000 in Kuwait and 9,600 in Afghanistan

http://wvgazette.com/section/News/2003090342

[polpilot]

1. I nominate Byrd for The Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. At least America has

1 representative.

Dean '04...

[Virginian]

2. He tried to warn them

but they wouldn't listen.

[Racenut20]

3. We are talking about $$$$$

The millions and millions the RNC is going to spend to try and defeat Byrd this time.

[McDiggy]

11. ...good!

Being that I'm writing this at pharmacy school at the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center at WVU of which I drove from Parkersburg utilizing the Robert C. Byrd Appalachian highway system to get here, I seriously doubt WV citizens would EVER be dumb enough NOT to vote for RCB. We may be hillbillies, but we aren't THAT ignorant.

If the Rep. party is silly enough to spend large amounts of cash in an unwinnable war, so be it, the less they can spend on national races.

[The Sushi Bandit]

4. Draft Byrd for President

I'll vote for him!!

[hang a left]

5. would be a great vp also

[zbdent]

6. Maybe we can get an "Iraq War Cost" clock

like the old "Deficit Clock".

And have a side counter with "Number of days without an American soldier killed in Iraq". Unfortunately, it would probably only need room for one digit, unless something happens in Nov 2004.

[SharonAnn]

8. There is one on the Internet at www.costofwar.com

and it compares how much it would equate to in terms of:
Pre-school
Kids health
Public Education
College scholarships
Public Housing

See it at www.costofwar.com

[SharonAnn]

7. Daschle on C-span now about this. Admin wants add'l $70 billion

for Iraq. He wants to know how much administration is spending or planning to spend on schools in rural Iraq when supposedly we don't have any for rural schools in this country.

[zekeson]

9. I'd like to see some sort of accounting of how they

spent the first 80 billion. It sure didn't reach the supply train to the troops. * and Co need to be stopped - it is surely their mission to bleed this country dry, suck out every last dime, funnel it into Halliburton, KBR, tax cuts to the insanely rich, and not leave a crumb for education, healthcare, or education. Soon we will all just be lowly serfs, working to pay our gracious landlords, mastas *, Rove, and Cheney.

[indepat]

12. By jove, I think you got

it.

[Zuni]

10. Byrd

despite his past, that old man earned my trust when he argued and filibustered for days to prevent the Iraq war vote, almost singlehandedly.
It was his finest hour.