U.S. President George W. Bush asked Congress on Monday for $189.3 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, another huge request that faced deep skepticism from lawmakers opposed to prolonging the Iraq conflict.
Bush's request covers military operations for fiscal 2008, which began on October 1, the White House said. If approved it would make 2008 the most expensive year in the Iraq and Afghan wars and would be on top of about $600 billion already approved for those conflicts.
House of Representatives appropriators said earlier this month they would not even consider the new war funding request until early 2008, and that they wanted to link it to a plan to bring U.S. combat troops home.
Bush cannot kill more innocent Iraqis without more money.
Bush cannot send American soldiers to their death in an illegal war without more money.
Bush cannot start a new war in Iran without more money.
Bush cannot continue to steal the oil revenues from the Iraqis without more money.
So can the Congress just find their backbone for once and refuse the Presidents request, stand firm against the predictable conservative attacks, and just put an end to this debacle once and for all?
so hmm, let me see if I have this straight...he is spending less on kids here ( that will help end their little lives) and spending more There...so that their dads and moms can die over there...for a whole lot of money....that hmm, I don' t even think we have...oh that is right we will just keep borrowing it, form China...a nice communist country with a brutal Human Rights Record...and he does want more money and more troops there so that he can bomb iran...do I have this right????
ReplyDeletePLEASE someone,...anyone Stop this Insanity....
( and yeah, btw California is burning to the ground....so what does the king do? come out and ask for money for Iraq....while Rome burns)
I just heard Brian Williams saying that it is worse then Katrina.
ReplyDeleteWorse then Katrina?
How is that even possible?