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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-03 09:35 PM
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What will Bush spend the 90billion on?
Edited on Sun Sep-07-03 09:35 PM by bigtree
There's no assurance that it won't go right in the contractor's pockets to cover the loss of oil money that they were promised.

And then there's Biden; "I'll support giving the president the money": Echoes of the last Democrat cave-in to Bush.

It's not going to the troops. It's not going to the Iraqis.

I suspect that instead of expecting other countries to provide for themselves and truly contribute he will use the funds to pay blood wages for their mercenaries to come in and make the US force look smaller.

When will he submit the emergency supplemental? Good reading ahead!
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kalian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-03 09:36 PM
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1. Repeat after me....
Halliburton....
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-03 09:37 PM
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2. ...and Bechtel....
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-03 09:43 PM
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3. Surely the congress
will ask for an accounting this time? Please? We should demand to know. I am making calls tomorrow to ask for that.
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pugslayer Donating Member (10 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-03 09:45 PM
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5. Oh yeh, Accounting
probably done by that little known Arthur Anderson Group!
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-03 05:46 AM
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9. Hi pugslayer!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-03 09:52 PM
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6. I like that
Look for who will recieve the emergency supplemental




"I'm the Commander, see...I do not need to explain
why I say things. That's the interesting thing about
being the President...I don't feel like I owe anybody
an explanation.- Bush to the National Security Council
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pugslayer Donating Member (10 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-03 09:43 PM
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4. How many WMD's
can Bush buy for 86 Billion???? How else will he get re-selected?
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mediaman007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-03 09:55 PM
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7. Congress must insist that their be bidding for the contracts,
otherwise there is no accountability for the spending of the money. Bidding for contracts allows both sides to have expectations. Under the current plan, we hand over money and look the other way.
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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-03 10:05 PM
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8. Unless
Edited on Sun Sep-07-03 10:06 PM by bigtree
they are just funnelling money into existing contracts or weapons systems that Congress had previously held up funding under a restricted budget. Like bunker-busters, mini-nukes, or new plutonium plants...Now the purse is open the military industrial warriors are suiting up for battle.

Good call on the contracts, though.
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