"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." President Dwight D. Eisenhower April 16, 1953 As of right now… The War in Iraq Cost the United States $106,578,724,484 See the cost in your community: http://costofwar.com/
Bush may seek more for Iraq, Afghanistan By JOHN J. LUMPKIN Associated Press Posted on Mon, Feb. 02, 2004 WASHINGTON - The Bush administration expects to ask Congress for up to $50 billion early next year to pay for ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the White House budget director said Monday. Next year's expected request would represent the third major request to pay for U.S. activities in those countries since last spring. That money would be on top of the $401.7 billion the Pentagon says it is seeking for its 2005 defense budget. Though Congress has approved most of President Bush's defense proposals with little complaint since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the White House is under growing criticism from Republicans for overall spending that has grown rapidly in his administration. Already, Congress has approved $166 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan outside the regular budget process. In a briefing on Bush's budget, White House budget chief Joshua Bolten told reporters they should regard $50 billion "as the upper limit for what will be needed in '05" for Iraq and Afghanistan. http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/7855643.htm Money for Iraq fight running out From AFP February 12, 2004 AS the carnage in Iraq continued last night, US military chiefs warned they would run out of money for operations in Afghanistan and Iraq at the end of September unless President George W. Bush asked Congress for more funds. Because the Bush administration's 2005 military budget contained no money for Iraq and Afghanistan, the armed services would be forced to pay for operations with funds that were supposed to be used for modernisation and other items, they said. "I am concerned . . . how we bridge the gap between the end of this fiscal year and whenever we could get a supplemental (spending bill) in the next year," US Army Chief of Staff Peter Schoomaker told the Senate armed services committee yesterday. "And I don't have an answer for exactly how we would do that." http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,8656953%5E2703,00.htm
Wait just a minute. Even though Kerry didn't claim it was 'foreign' leaders that endorsed him, nor did Kerry claim they looked him in the eye, that issue, somehow still goes to show he makes stuff up. Let's ignore the 237 misleading statements by this administration and acknowledge the fact that we can't trust Kerry.
but it was already in the hands of the government? are all those other things the govt would spend it on super efficient things?
You're forgetting that a lot of that is paid on Iraqi subcontractors. Plus why is the US arming the Iraqi and Afghan police forces with Kalishnikov's? Wouldn't that money help out the US economy if we armed them with American made weapons?
Why did President Eishehauer, a Republican general, hate the United States so much and love terrorism so much?
