Let's demand equal funding for Iraq and Katrina reconstruction.

[bleever]

Maybe our gulf state residents would get more consideration if they could fake up an Al Qaeda connection.

You want money for your war, Mr. pResident? Then spend the same amount on Katrina victims.

Is that so much to ask?

[RevCheesehead]

1. Amen to that, brother Bleev.

K & R!

[bleever]

3. Thank you, Sister. Can I get another "Amen"?

I want to hear * explain why that's a ridiculous amount to spend on New Orleans and Mississippi, but a splendid amount to spend in Iraq.

[Patsy Stone]

2. No, I don't think that's so much to ask.

K&R

[bleever]

7. To be mayor of Chicago, you had to fill the potholes, plow the snow,

and pick up the garbage.

I think the president should be not be held to a lower standard than that.

[Patsy Stone]

10. A chicken in every pot

quickly turns, again, into Hoovervilles.

[Amonester]

4. As long as both funding won't end up in helliburton's corrupt pockets..

WAIT!

That's exactly where both will end up...

:hangover:

[bleever]

5. Democrats in Congress can write the appropriations bill

and make sure the Katrina money doesn't go to private contractors like Halliburton. The history of the U.S. offers plenty of examples of how it can be done right.

The G.I. Bill and the WPA were successful in helping citizens and not corporations. It can be done.

[Amonester]

6. If Congress can put those conditions in...

(AND appropriate the funds for Iraq for a timely redeployment at the same time...)

You do know what will happen, don't you? I do. And sadly, everybody here knows too.

Can you say... V E T O ?

Now, can we say C H I M P E A C H ?

[bleever]

8. Let him veto it, if he dares.

He'd be driving the stake deeper into the heart of the Republican brand, and we'd be no worse off.

[Amonester]

12. Let him veto it, then send it back to him unchanged, and again, and

again...

We all know THAT brat boy will never change (actually, Cheney more but the little pampered king somewhat equally).

I'm all for it.

Too bad nobody will benefit from it (except on election day, let's hope...)

[Olney Blue]

9. I like this idea.

K/R

Hi bleever! :hi:

[bleever]

11. Thanks. Support the troops, rebuild New Orleans.

What's to argue? If it's going to be an either/or funding argument, why pit the troops against the Katrina victims? If anything, it's the troops and NOLA versus Bush's tax cuts for the top 1%.

[Berry Cool]

13. Well, it might end the war quickly.

The funding for THAT might dry up a whole lot faster than NOLA.

[bleever]

14. We the People can demand it: understandinglife's treatise.

http://missionnotaccomplished.us/WTPv17n.pdf

This comprehensive look at how the government failed us both in Iraq and with Katrina, and how We the People are empowered and required to act to correct the course of our republic, would make an excellent addition to any reading list, high school, college, and all citizens who give a damn.

[OneBlueSky]

15. the money BushCo has pissed away in Iraq could have rebuilt New Orleans . . .

and a good chunk of the Gulf Coast . . . their "response" to Katrina and its aftermath is yet another crime against humanity of which they are thoroughly guilty . . .

and that photo of the dogs breaks my heart . . .

[defendandprotect]

17. Now there's an idea!!! At the same rate of theft, Halliburton would probably go NOLA ---

Why shouldn't New Orleans be worth as much as Iraq -- ???

[bleever]

16. The Dems need to take a stand on the $50 billion for Iraq; this is a way to do it.

:kick:

[texpatriot2004]

18. Excellent idea Bleever nm