WASHINGTON - President Bush asked Congress on Monday for another $46 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and finance other national security needs. "We must provide our troops with the help and support they need to get the job done," Bush said.This is newsworthy enough to bring up this TDS clip from February 2006 aired after Bush asked for $65B. Yes, before the war started they predicted the reconstruction would cost the American Tax payer $1.7B.The figure brings to $196.4 billion the total requested by the administration for operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere for the budget year that started Oct. 1. It includes $189.3 billion for the Defense Department, $6.9 billion for the State Department and $200 million for other agencies.
To date, Congress has already provided more than $455 billion for the Iraq war, with stepped-up military operations running about $10 billion a month. The war has claimed the lives of more than 3,830 members of the U.S. military and more than 73,000 Iraqi civilians...Read More...
The last major report showed that reconstruction has been nothing but a failure. Michael Ware explains here to Anderson Cooper last April.
Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 1)
1. If Congress budgeted that much every year to control carbon dioxide emissions and develop alternative sources of energy, the United States could make a significant impact to the risk of global warming. As it is, we are spending billions for wars that support our fossil fuel sources and thus, accelerate the warming process.
Bart at 11:19AM on Oct 23rd 2007
2. What's with the cheesy commercial. I couldn't even mute it and that's the first time I've seen that disabled.
tom at 7:41PM on Oct 22nd 2007
3. NEWS FLASH: President George W. Bush declared the California fires the work of terrorists. In response, the President has ordered the immediate invasion of Chile. "The terrorists never stop trying to hurt our country and neither do we," the President said.
Alan Lantzer at 8:30PM on Oct 22nd 2007
4. And to think that people in this country went out of their way to personally attack the Frost kid for speaking out in favor of the S-Chip program. His family even got death threats over this. G*D forbid we put money to use in a possitive way....
And this President want's more money for war!!! What ever happened to "Mission Accomplished"?? How many more lies people, how many before we wake up???
Doesn't anyone see what is so wrong with this picture???
Patty at 9:04PM on Oct 22nd 2007
5. No no money for this war - no more- do you hear the majority, legislative branch and fourth estate?!
When that man and his administration are gone (if they leave), you will be also gone... swept aside like lice, for all your ineffectual scratching against bush/cheney's megacorp nationwide infection.
Pass the comb and permethricin - wipe these inexcusable bastards out, send them home to their whitebread families, gay sons, and attempts at lobbying for their corporate meal, and offshore accounts. Market crashes will sink their boats as well.
Let them meet us as vicious protesters in the coming years. Let their feeble attempts at making a half-million at a speaking engagement for the surviving pig-barons be met with a cowed ring of career secret service men, and the frightened upper class, of the service industry proles howling in the aisles.
Know no peace.
On with the terror.
geo lusk at 11:16PM on Oct 23rd 2007
6. In the photo, whats this about the men standing behind bush? Notice that he always has people march out to stand behind him. Condi and others frequently march out to stand behind him or he will have a bank of soldiers behind him. Any propaganda expert out there that has an idea about what this is all about. Then there is the banners. When I give a speech at Rotary or the Civitans Club should I get people to march out with me. Gee, what an effect this could have. And just think if I get a difficult question from an audience member I could just send one of them out for crowd control.
On point, shouldn't we have more control over how tax dollars are spent? I wonder how many people have died due to levees, bridges, natural disaster and lack of health insurance. Do any of you know what effect this deficit has on jobs and our economy?
As I remember, we were told that Iraqi oil would pay for the reconstruction. Isn't oil at $90 a barrel?
Well at least bush hasn't started WW3. Oops, he did mention that threat in a speech last week.
Cats and dogs living together, george bush as president for 8 years, a society that hasn't been as divided since the 1860's. Sometimes I think I'll just visit the nearest creationist museum and ride on a dinosaur for a while.
Steve Seivers at 8:48AM on Oct 23rd 2007