Bush Wants $50 Billion More for Iraq War

[G_j]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/28/AR2007082801984_pf.html

Bush Wants $50 Billion More for Iraq War
Planned Request Signals Confidence That Congress Won't Prevail on Pullout

By Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 29, 2007; A01

President Bush plans to ask Congress next month for up to $50 billion in additional funding for the war in Iraq, a White House official said yesterday, a move that appears to reflect increasing administration confidence that it can fend off congressional calls for a rapid drawdown of U.S. forces.

The request -- which would come on top of about $460 billion in the fiscal 2008 defense budget and $147 billion in a pending supplemental bill to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq -- is expected to be announced after congressional hearings scheduled for mid-September featuring the two top U.S. officials in Iraq. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker will assess the state of the war and the effect of the new strategy the U.S. military has pursued this year.

The request is being prepared now in the belief that Congress will be unlikely to balk so soon after hearing the two officials argue that there are promising developments in Iraq but that they need more time to solidify the progress they have made, a congressional aide said.

Most of the additional funding in a revised supplemental bill would pay for the current counteroffensive in Iraq, which has expanded the U.S. force there by about 28,000 troops, to about 160,000. The cost of the buildup was not included in the proposed 2008 budget because Pentagon officials said they did not know how long the troop increase would last. The decision to seek about $50 billion more appears to reflect the view in the administration that the counteroffensive will last into the spring of 2008 and will not be shortened by Congress.

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[wildbilln864]

1. Not just no but HELL NO!

:grr:

[flyarm]

ditto! i am damn sick of this shit!..enough! or no one will get my vote! eom

[porphyrian]

2. Fuck him. - n/t

[bluestateguy]

3. Where did the money go that we just gave him?

[wildbilln864]

5. Into Haliburton's pockets!

link


:hi:

[crim son]

4. I'd be happy to chip in. Oh wait,

I can't even fucking afford to gas up my car.

Damn the way the government uses our money makes me want to puke. Or strangle somebody (no mods, not really)

[Disturbed]

6. Will the Dems cave....again?

Of course.

[crim son]

7. Of course.

But we must pretend we don't know that, and be loyal no matter how spineless they continue to be.

[Disturbed]

8. I sure am glad that I am not a Democract.

Amerika has two major parties & I don't like either one of them.

[Solly Mack]

9. and he'll get it and people will claim "it's for the troops"

and I'll gag on more bile.

Got news for those people....you're murdering and
maiming Iraqis and Americans alike under the bullshit banner of "for the troops"

NOTHING about Bush's wars have been "for the troops" (or about "democracy" or "national security")

NOTHING.

[Joanne98]

10. Get it from the fucking contractors!

[moondust]

16. Yes! Take up a collection at Halliburton!

[many a good man]

11. Maybe he needs more Iraq $$$ to divert for Iran preps

Just like he took $$$ allocated for Afghanistan and used it for Iraq.

[The Backlash Cometh]

12. It's time for Bush to privatize his own pet projects. Tell him to put a mortgage

on Kennebunkport.

[Dirty Hippie]

13. Let's see how Clinton and Obama vote on this one. n/t

[OneBlueSky]

15. anyone who votes for this will NEVER get my vote . . . primaries or general . . . n/t

.

[DCKit]

17. List of Senators up for re-election in 2008. Is your favorite Repuke on the list?

<http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?Class=2>

[Truth2Tell]

18. They'll vote no

They won't be needed to pass this one.

The real question is how forcefully will they fight it.

Could we see our old missing friend Phil A. Buster?

Doubt it.

[Az_lefty]

14. fuck'em...he can withdraw it from one of his offshore accounts.