Here is the 87 BILLION DOLLAR QUESTION

[whosinpower]

Do you all recall John Kerry being lambasted for voting AGAINST the 87 billion dollar funding bill that was SUPPOSED to be for providing troops with the necessary equipment?????

87 BILLION dollars - and troops in Kuwait have TO PICK THROUGH garbage to salvage steel to armor their own humvees.....and while the government says they ware working on this just as fast as they can - let's face it 20 MONTHS is not very fast, and the company that does build these things states that government has NOT contacted them to build more.

SO WHERE DID THE 87 BILLION DOLLARS GO?????????

[bleedingheart]

1. It is completely pathetic.....

People thought I was making shit up when I told them that our troops didn't have enough armor...they laughed at me and told me that I was a crazy liberal.

Now it's in the goddamned news every freaking day and now there is outrage.. part of me doesn't give a flying f*ck anymore and part of me is disgusted about where my f*cking taxmoney is going...!!!!

Some Halliburton pond scum eating bastard is getting into his $75K Mercedes this morning to drop by the country club for breakfast and an early round of golf while our soldiers are fishing through scrap to arm their vehicles...and yet some of those soldiers voted for W...and their families did too....

I take solace in the fact that at least half of the country wasn't so freaking stupid.

[xultar]

2. I asked that last night...Rummy said it wasn't a matter of money ---

that was a lie, he said it was production - that was a lie also, cuz the company said they can produce more.

So that brings me back to money, cuz we know the pentagon has never ordered more despite the fact that the company told them they could increase prodcuction....

[tech3149]

3. Halliburton/KBR ?

for-profit support services are sucking up most of the cost of this stupid "war". Beyond that, I remember stories of abandoning vehicles because they didn't have spare tires.

[annabanana]

4. they are STEALING from us.........

as fast as they can, and from as many of our pockets as they can reach. They are robbing us blind and killing our kids and hundreds of thousands of innocents!

Merry Christmas you fucktards.

[texastoast]

5. If it were "only" 87 billion

http://www.costofwar.com

And the Great Deceiver is at it again. Here's your boy, freepers.

From the NYT this morning.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/10/international/middleeast/10military.html?th

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 - Congress released statistics Thursday documenting stark shortages in armor for the military transport trucks that ferry food, fuel and ammunition along dangerous routes in Iraq, while President Bush and his defense secretary both spoke out to defuse public criticism.

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"The concerns expressed are being addressed, and that is, we expect our troops to have the best possible equipment," Mr. Bush said. "And I have told many families I met with, we're doing everything we possibly can to protect your loved ones in a mission which is vital and important."

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"Last year, we began to see an increase in improvised explosive device attacks against our forces, primarily against convoys that were moving throughout Iraq," said Lt. Gen. R. Steven Whitcomb, commander of coalition ground forces in the Middle East. "And they began having an impact on our soldiers, a deadly impact, as we all know."

...

LAST YEAR?? LAST YEAR?? Why didn't the shrub use some of the $143 billion in corporate welfare he shelled out so very fucking quietly shortly before the election to take care of our military?