Report: Bush seeks $70 billion for Iraq, Afghan

AP/fox23news.com ^ | Feb 06 | AP

[churchillbuff]

Some big bills are about to come due for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and rebuilding along the Gulf Coast.

A Senate G-O-P aide says President Bush is set to request 70 (B) billion dollars in special funding for the two wars.

And the official says Bush will seek another 18 (B) billion dollars for rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. That number's in addition to the 85 (B) billion already committed to the Gulf Coast reconstruction.

[flaglady47]

I've had it with Bush. Glad this is his last few years. Although at the rate he is going, more damage can be done, in particular regarding immigration law. He's a big spending RINO, in reality. My basic instincts to defend him are gone. Even his nominees to the Supreme Court were actually against what he would have really wished to do. He wanted his friend Gonzales on the SC, as well as Harriet Meiers. If it would have been possible to do so politically, he would have.

I've lost my faith in Bush on most issues. Social Security, health, education, immigration, deficit spending, campaign finance reform, paying to rebuild Iraq using our money rather than Iraq's oil profits, the Dubai ports deal, etc. etc. etc. The only thing he really has done conservatively is appoint more conservative judges to the bench, and be anti-abortion (without really doing anything). That's not enough for me to offset all of the other negative aspects of his administration. Plus he never has used his veto, except for his threat now to use it to support Dubai's attempt to manage our ports. Homeland security, my tailbone. He had so many big issues he could have used his veto pen on, and this is the issue he draws his line in the sand with?

What a disappointment Bush has become. May we do better with a good really conservative candidate next time around, that's if the Dems don't somehow manage to pull off a win, and unlike some others, I believe, given the right circumstances, they could. There were only a few electoral votes between a Bush presidency and a Kerry one this last time around. People should remember that. Popular vote doesn't count, as we found out the first time around in 2000. Electoral votes do. It's what gave Bush the Presidency both times. The first time by one state's electoral votes (FL), even though allegedly Bush lost the popular vote. The second time around the roles reversed. Bush had the popular vote, but only beat Kerry by a few electoral states. One can never be too secure about political outcomes.

[Walkin Man]

With sadness, I totally agree with your post flaglady.

Get ready to be called a xenophobic, racist communist democrat now by some of the so-called conservatives on this board...

[flaglady47]

Get ready to be called a xenophobic, racist communist democrat now by some of the so-called conservatives on this board...

Which is a total joke, as I am way to the right of George Bush, but you are correct about the Bushbots, who come out in packs on the hunt.

[Paul_Denton]

The real waste of money is social welfare and catering to illegal immigrants. Our military needs all the money it can get.

[ace2u_in_MD]

And let us not forget the segment who are just itching for us to go and invade Iran...

The administration has tipped it's hand. All they have right now is to try and get the american people afraid again... Expect elevated threat announcements come spring...

And other federal agencies and programs are being starved for funds now to pay for the war. NASA is canceling missions to keep shuttle flying and pay for CEV. We are looking at having NO MANNED ACCESS TO SPACE for 5 - 10 years soon.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Who passed the two largest tax cuts in US History?

Those cuts immediately got swallowed up by massive government spending. This is like trying to empty Lake Michigan with a bucket.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Yes, the cost of national defense is an irksome thing. It would be nice if we didn't have enemies in this world, foreign and domestic.

I have no objection spending billions on national defense and security. The line in the sand appears when it is spent on Teddy's education plan, housing and "urban" development & heating assistance programs that goes in the pockets of poverty pimps, and highway boondoggles that states should be paying for themselves. In fact states should be stepping up and taking care of all domestic programs, and SS/Medicaid/Medicare should be gradually phased out.

[section9]

Uh, buff, one of the things I dislike about you is that you don't live in the real world.

That is what happened.

A SPETZNAZ brigade with chemical troops came in. We saw it. The Israelis saw it. We couldn't do a thing about it. This has been known in official Washington for the past several years. Bush doesn't talk about it because he doesn't want to admit that he got cornholed by Putin.

The Russians snookered us before the war to sanitize their involvement in Saddam's chemical and biowar program. Saddam bought some of their stuff on the black market and the KGB came in and cleaned up. That's what they do. We looked the other way because the Russians took the really lethal stuff back to Russia and put it under Adult Supervision. The Clown Car stuff is buried in Syria.

Unfortunately, the Looneytarians, Neoisolationist Charles Lindbergh types (that would be you, buff), Piltdown Man Brigadiers who thumb through worn-out back-issues of The Spotlight and Daily Kos Democrats believe that Saddam was some sort of misunderstood choirboy who had no WMD. The evidence is, thankfully, coming out to vindicate the President.

Unfortunately, we have a President who doesn't like to rock the diplomatic boat. We also have a White House staff who likes to see their President treated like a pinata by his opponents who peddle the same b.s. that you do.

Grow up. It's a dangerous world filled with genocidal monsters. Try living in it. Or you can keep buying gold and pretending that that will keep the jihadi away.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[churchillbuff]

You spin a comic-book fantasy at me, and accuse me of not living "in the real world." LOL. "we" know, you say. who's "we"? It isn't you - because you wouldn't be telling me classified info if you were in a position to know. you're just spouting what some propagandist wrote somewhere, which you have no means to verify. Cheney and Bush have both denied this story, if memory serves.

And the administration's ACTIONS also show it's not true - because they sent military teams to search for WMDs when they got to Bagdhad. Judy Miller was with one of the teams. They even announced at one point that they'd found a "mobile lab" - turned out to be for pharmeceuticals. Anyway, their actions showed that they DIDN't "know" that WMDs had been "taken to Syria."

Also, if the WMDs were shipped out, and "we" knew that - - then it's all the more inexcusable that we sacrificed 2000-plus people to take over Iraq.

[lawdog]

"There is no narcotic so intoxicating as the power to spend someone else's money."

[churchillbuff]

spend, spend, spend, spend, spend, spend, spend.

That's what the feds do best, andt that's why the federal government needs your money - and your kids' money and you parents' money and your spouse's money.

[Peach]

Oh, Church. You never fail to disappoint.

Apparently you are unaware that gasoline is cheaper now than it was in 1974, adjusted for inflation. All this whining about the price of gas -- but it takes less money to fill your tank than it did in 1974 or anytime since then.