Another broken promisObama to Seek $33 Billion More for Wars
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another broken promise by Obama.....sigh :roll:
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/01/12/obam ... -for-wars/
Obama to Seek $33 Billion More for Wars
Pledge Not to Seek 'Emergency' War Funds Gives Way to Another Request
by Jason Ditz, January 12, 2010
When President Obama requested a $106 billion “emergency” was funding bill in early 2009, it was promised that this would be the last time the administration would ever seek such a supplement, and that they would instead simply increase the size of their regular defense funding bill to cover the wars.
And indeed, the FY 2010 defense funding bill indeed included a massive bump in funding for the assorted ongoing wars, one that was shrugged off however as it was said to replace the annual “emergency” requests.
In spite of this, President Obama is now planning to ask for another $33 billion in “emergency” war funding to pay for his latest escalation of the war in Afghanistan, as well as to purchase yet more attack drones.
The president’s initial projections for war costs, given shortly after he took office, seem remarkably low in retrospect, as they haven’t anticipated the continuation of the Iraq occupation at such a high level nor the multiple escalations of the Afghan War since he took office last year.
The idea of folding the war costs into the regular defense budget seemed reasonable, since the United States is pretty much perpetually at war nowadays. The addition of a new “emergency” request on top of the increased defense budget has given Americans the worst of both worlds, and given Congress ample opportunity to pump billions in irrelevant projects into “can’t miss” war bills.
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/01/12/obam ... -for-wars/
Obama to Seek $33 Billion More for Wars
Pledge Not to Seek 'Emergency' War Funds Gives Way to Another Request
by Jason Ditz, January 12, 2010
When President Obama requested a $106 billion “emergency” was funding bill in early 2009, it was promised that this would be the last time the administration would ever seek such a supplement, and that they would instead simply increase the size of their regular defense funding bill to cover the wars.
And indeed, the FY 2010 defense funding bill indeed included a massive bump in funding for the assorted ongoing wars, one that was shrugged off however as it was said to replace the annual “emergency” requests.
In spite of this, President Obama is now planning to ask for another $33 billion in “emergency” war funding to pay for his latest escalation of the war in Afghanistan, as well as to purchase yet more attack drones.
The president’s initial projections for war costs, given shortly after he took office, seem remarkably low in retrospect, as they haven’t anticipated the continuation of the Iraq occupation at such a high level nor the multiple escalations of the Afghan War since he took office last year.
The idea of folding the war costs into the regular defense budget seemed reasonable, since the United States is pretty much perpetually at war nowadays. The addition of a new “emergency” request on top of the increased defense budget has given Americans the worst of both worlds, and given Congress ample opportunity to pump billions in irrelevant projects into “can’t miss” war bills.
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what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
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innocent people are dying, every day. that's the real cost of this war.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100113/ap_ ... funding_11
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"The 2010 budget contains about $128 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
That figure would rise to $159 billion next year under the proposals prepared for Congress."
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It's a good thing that Afghani Poll says they want us there... which must be a good thing for the people who think that poll was a a good thing.
Hail, Hail!!!
innocent people are dying, every day. that's the real cost of this war.[/quote
that's true...I didn't mean to sound un-caring