Bush to ask 195 billion to fund Iraq, Afgan wars: report

[G_j]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070923/wl_afp/usiraqafghanistanwarbudget_070923060848;_ylt=A0WTcUY7T_ZGLAwB.QpX6GMA

Sun Sep 23, 2:08 AM ET


WASHINGTON (AFP) - The White House will ask Congress next week to approve another massive spending measure for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan totaling nearly 200 billion dollars, The Los Angeles Times reported on its website late Saturday.

Citing unnamed Pentagon officials, the newspaper said if President George W. Bush's spending request is approved, 2008 will be the most expensive year of the Iraq war.

US war costs have continued to grow because of the additional combat forces sent to Iraq this year and because of efforts to quickly ramp up production of new equipment, such as mine-resistant trucks, the report said.

The new trucks can cost three to six times as much as an armored Humvee, according to the paper.

The Bush administration said earlier this year that it probably would need 147.5 billion dollars for fiscal 2008, but Pentagon officials now say that and 47 billion dollars more will be required, The Times said.

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[frogcycle]

1. turn a deaf ear

request? what request?

now, about these subpoenas...

[MadHound]

2. And the odds are the Democratic Congress will approve it with hardly a protest

And the war will continue to grind on. I would love to be proven wrong, but sadly, I doubt that I will be.

[spanone]

5. they won't even make him say 'pretty please'

[indepat]

3. How many dollars to the Euro?

[spanone]

4. and how much is the 'coalition of the willing' putiing in?????

we have no idea where any of this money goes.

[ima_sinnic]

6. I thought he JUST got several bazillion more--no matter, Congress

loves transferring our tax dollars to the personal pockets of Blackwater goons, mass murderers, rapists, bombers, terrorists, death squads, destabilizers and black ops to perpetuate an occupation that was never warranted, justified, or legalized and is calculated to last indefinitely and be impossible to "win." With the cowardly, complicit, corrupt approval of Congress, our young people face an indefinitely long future of premature death, disability, mental illness, disfigurement, and trauma. Many will end up on the streets to replace the current crop of homeless and mentally ill Vietnam vets (who also should never have been called to serve in an illegal and unnecessary dirty war).

What will it fucking TAKE to bring this entire administration and its complicit boot-licking lackey DLC and repuke conspirators fucking DOWN?? We The People said "ENOUGH" years ago!!