Bush Wants 120 Billion More For War, 439 Billion For Defense Budget

[Bronco_Beerslug]

Why not? He does have an image to uphold (continuing setting spending records).

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Bush to Request $120 Billion More for Wars
By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer Fri Feb 3, 3:48 AM ET

WASHINGTON - Upcoming White House requests would boost total spending on the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan well past the $400 billion mark, while spending for hurricane relief would top $100 billion, administration officials acknowledge.

The new totals came to light Thursday as the administration said it would ask Congress for $120 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and $18 billion more this year for hurricane relief.

The president also will ask Congress to devote an additional $2.3 billion to prepare for a bird flu epidemic, congressional aides said.

About $70 billion of the new war money will be requested for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year, bringing total spending on the two campaigns to $120 billion for the current budget year. The other $50 billion in new war money will be set aside for the first few months of the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. More money will probably be needed in 2007.

The bulk of the emergency spending will go toward military operations, officials said, but will also be used to replace damaged, destroyed or worn-out equipment. Another part of the request would provide aid to train Iraqi security forces and otherwise combat the insurgency in Iraq.

The
Congressional Budget Office has estimated that $320 billion has been spent on Iraq and Afghanistan since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, including $50 billion that Congress sent Bush in December.
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Bush to Request $439.3B Defense Budget
By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer Fri Feb 3, 5:26 AM ET

WASHINGTON -
President Bush's 2007 budget seeks a nearly 5 percent increase in Defense Department spending, to $439.3 billion, with significantly more money for weapons programs, according to senior
Pentagon officials and documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The budget figures, to be unveiled next week, come as the Pentagon prepares to release a separate long-range strategy to reshape the military into a more agile fighting force better able to fight terrorism, while still preserving its ability to wage large conventional wars.

More than a year in the making and scheduled to be released Friday, the strategy review represents the broader thinking that guides how the dollars are spent. It does not call for the elimination of any of the largest weapons programs, as some had expected.
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[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Why not? He does have an image to uphold (continuing setting spending records).


Not to mention that he knows the GOP-controlled congress is going to rubber stamp any request for more duffel bags full of cash for shoddy contractors and mercs he asks for (while agreeing not to demand any oversight or accountability.)

He's just going through the motions to give the sheeple the impression that we still have representative government.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

All the billions of dollars that have been wasted or that have gone "missing" in Iraq hitherto, and this handjob wants us to trust him with more of our tax dollars?

With no oversight and no accountability for his cronies who steal the money?

When are the sheeple going to wake up?

[SteveTensi13]

Wars are expensive dumb A**!! If Clinton had taken out Bin Laden when he was offered up on a silver platter we wouldn't be spending this money now. But once again, a demoncat in office didn't have a clue on how to overt future conflict by taking preemptive action!

[Bronco_Beerslug]

Wars are expensive dumb A**!! If Clinton had taken out Bin Laden when he was offered up on a silver platter we wouldn't be spending this money now. But once again, a demoncat in office didn't have a clue on how to overt future conflict by taking preemptive action!

Hilarious!

You can always tell when new blood walks in from the cold.

[Cito Pelon]

Wars are expensive dumb A**!! If Clinton had taken out Bin Laden when he was offered up on a silver platter we wouldn't be spending this money now. But once again, a demoncat in office didn't have a clue on how to overt future conflict by taking preemptive action!

Don't get too carried away defending GWB's trillion dollar war (and it will end up costing a trillion, just as I predicted). Irregardless of what happened in the previous President's watch, bungling of this magnitude stinks. It stinks to the tune of a trillion dollars, and at the same time cutting millionaires huge tax breaks. I have a hard time buying into those policy choices.

I don't have a problem at all with GWB and his crew shaking up geopolitics, since the US is very strong and resilient and has as good a chance as anybody of coming out on top in the shakeup. Nevertheless, I hate to see bungles of this magnitude.

Somebody has to pay for bungles of this magnitude, and guess who that will be with Republicans in charge? It won't be the millionaires, it's gonna be Joe Lunchbucket and his kids and grandkids.

[SteveTensi13]

Don't get too carried away defending GWB's trillion dollar war (and it will end up costing a trillion, just as I predicted). Irregardless of what happened in the previous President's watch, bungling of this magnitude stinks. It stinks to the tune of a trillion dollars, and at the same time cutting millionaires huge tax breaks. I have a hard time buying into those policy choices.

I don't have a problem at all with GWB and his crew shaking up geopolitics, since the US is very strong and resilient and has as good a chance as anybody of coming out on top in the shakeup. Nevertheless, I hate to see bungles of this magnitude.

Somebody has to pay for bungles of this magnitude, and guess who that will be with Republicans in charge? It won't be the millionaires, it's gonna be Joe Lunchbucket and his kids and grandkids.

So Clinton gets a pass for doing absolutley nothing to confront terrorism? Meanwhile Dubya, whether you like it or not, is saving your ass! Freedom, contrary to what liberals think, is not free. It is to be defended at all costs both monatary and in blood. If it cost 10 trillion dollars to prevent another 9-11 I'm all for it. It just means I can't buy that extra six pack of beer.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Hilarious!

You can always tell when new blood walks in from the cold.

Ha!

He's not new - he's just an old knuckledragger with a new handle.

He used to call himself "Patriot" (talk about a misnomer.)

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Wars are expensive dumb A**!!

But sh_t for brains:

The issue I raised was "where is the money going?"

So far, the crooks you're fellating don't have a very good track record on that account.



If Clinton had taken out Bin Laden when he was offered up on a silver platter...

tsk tsk

There you go with the long-refuted urban legends and ditto monkey disinfo again.

The claim that Clinton was "offered OBL on a platter" was debunked by the 9/11 Commission, dumbass.


But once again, a demoncat in office didn't have a clue on how to overt future conflict by taking preemptive action!

Is "pre-emptive action" why >3,000 Americans were killed on Bush's watch, genius?

(Even though the pretender was warned time and time again that Bin Laden was planning suicide attacks inside the U.S.?)

[SteveTensi13]

Is "pre-emptive action" why >3,000 Americans were killed on Bush's watch, genius?
(Even though the pretender was warned time and time again that Bin Laden was planning suicide attacks inside the U.S.?)

Ummm, the pre-emptive policy didn't come until AFTER 9-11. Please get your facts straight before you open YOUR pie-hole!

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Ummm, the pre-emptive policy didn't come until AFTER 9-11.

Thanks for making my point for me.

Bush was warned repeatedly by multiple sources that al qaeda was planning suicide attacks inside the U.S.

Why didn't he adopt a pre-emptive policy then? (Instead of waiting until after the attacks?)

After all, isn't the failure to act pre-emptively what wingnuts like you attack Clinton for?


Please get your facts straight before you open YOUR pie-hole!

You wouldn't know a fact if you tripped over it.

[Cito Pelon]

So Clinton gets a pass for doing absolutley nothing to confront terrorism? Meanwhile Dubya, whether you like it or not, is saving your ass! Freedom, contrary to what liberals think, is not free. It is to be defended at all costs both monatary and in blood. If it cost 10 trillion dollars to prevent another 9-11 I'm all for it. It just means I can't buy that extra six pack of beer.

Clinton was the Hegelian Thesis, Bush is the Hegelian Antithesis. History has moved onto the next grind. Bush is the new Thesis. Focus on the new Antithesis if you want to stay ahead of the game.

The next Antithesis will have something to do with Muslims, China, India, the US, the EU, Poland, hell, who knows? It's a great game, geopolitics, the highest stakes game there is. Gotta love it. This is the Big Table. Pretty broad Antithesis, eh? Place your bet, play your cards, and let the fun begin.

[Rigs11]

So Clinton gets a pass for doing absolutley nothing to confront terrorism? Meanwhile Dubya, whether you like it or not, is saving your ass! Freedom, contrary to what liberals think, is not free. It is to be defended at all costs both monatary and in blood. If it cost 10 trillion dollars to prevent another 9-11 I'm all for it. It just means I can't buy that extra six pack of beer.

Umm. News flash:Iraq had nothing to do with 911. The only terrorism that exists there now is due to the invasion of Iraq.There has actually been an increase in terrorism due to the invasion of Iraq so we are actually less safe. The majority of money that they are asking for will be used in Iraq. It is expected that the Iraq war will costs us 2 trillion when all is said and done. Meanwhile the Repubs are cutting student loans and medicare benefits to "balalnce the budget". What a crock.

[Bronx33]

Umm. News flash:Iraq had nothing to do with 911. The only terrorism that exists there now is due to the invasion of Iraq.There has actually been an increase in terrorism due to the invasion of Iraq so we are actually less safe. The majority of money that they are asking for will be used in Iraq. It is expected that the Iraq war will costs us 2 trillion when all is said and done. Meanwhile the Repubs are cutting student loans and medicare benefits to "balalnce the budget". What a crock.

Only in america the old and future students/leaders pay to fund something.

[Rascal]

SteveTensi13, why don't you cut it with the insults. They don't help your arguement any and make you sound unintelligent.

LABF, you didn't start it but no reason to stoop to his level.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Bush's tyranny for a bankrupt nation

President Bush has consistently defended his massive $500 billion tax cuts. He has insisted that deficit spending be a "permanent" part of the national budget. His economic plan has eroded the confidence of central banks around the world and increased the federal debt by a whopping $3 trillion. Still, he persists in his claim that deficits should be an enduring function of government.

Doesn't this confirm that bankrupting the country is an integral part of the Bush grand strategy?

What more proof do we need?

Imagine someone stealing your credit card and running up a $450,000 bill year after year and then defending the theft as necessary to "create more jobs" as the "trickle-down" theorists do?

Would you take such a person at his word?

Deficits are theft; and the determination to make these lavish tax cuts for the wealthy permanent proves beyond a doubt that it is part of a larger strategy to bring about an economic meltdown that will change the political complexion of the country.

What else could it mean?

Dick Cheney recently opined, "Reagan proved that deficits don't mean anything."

Liar.

In fact, Cheney was part of the Reagan administration when Reagan's tax cuts created monstrous $200 billion deficits, up 75% from 1980. The effects were devastating. Unemployment jumped to 10%, the 30 year mortgage skyrocketed to 15%, the economy ground to a standstill, and the nation plunged into the deepest recession since the 1930s.

Cheney fully understands the suffering that deficits produce. Now, he wants to continue that misery as a permanent function of government.

Why?

Is it really so important to reward the "fortunate 1%" that the administration would risk the economic well-being and solvency of the nation?

And, what is the relationship between the ocean of debt produced by the Bush team and their strengthening of police-state apparatus like unlimited spying on Americans, the NSS (Bush's new Secret Police), the uniform Federal ID program, the Patriot Act, and Halliburton's $385 million contract from Homeland Security to construct new detention and processing facilities within the United States?

Is the ascendancy of the police-state intended to balance the catastrophic effects of economic destruction? Or, do the new instruments of repression anticipate the "political turmoil" (Warren Buffet's words) that naturally results from financial collapse?

The Bush master-plan is no different than the economic shock-therapy the United States has directed at the third world for decades. The strategy is simple and straightforward, but virtually foolproof in achieving its objectives; the crushing of the middle class and the subsequent shifting of the nation's wealth to the "oligarchy of racketeers" who run the system.

The levers of power have all been faithfully assembled by Bush operatives, while America's $3 trillion trade deficit looms overhead like the sword of Damocles. As the underpinnings of economic wellbeing continue to deteriorate; causing further job-flight, credit spending, and soaring energy prices; the power-brokers at the head-of-state calmly arrange the instruments of repression they'll need to maintain order.

Did we really imagine the chickens would never come home to roost?

Regardless of what the public-relation gurus on the business channel say, the state of the union is disastrous. Bush has intentionally looted the treasury and torpedoed America's economic future. Federal Reserve chief, Alan Greenspan cooperatively kept interest rates low so the greatest swindle in history could take place while the drowsy American public snoozed away.

Thanks, Alan.

Americans refuse to believe that bubbles (housing or stock market) are brought about by the deliberate and politically-motivated actions at the Federal Reserve.

Huh?

Everyone agrees about the effects of high interest rates; why would there be so much uncertainty about low interest rates?

Just as high interest rates slow the economy by making loans on investment more expensive; so too, low interest rates naturally produce increased speculation by making cheap money available to a greater number of people. Greenspan knew as early as 1996 that the stock market was over-inflated when he warned that "there was a stock market bubble at this point" that is "a problem we should keep our eye on". (Remember "irrational exuberance"?) Still, he accommodated his friends in Washington and Wall Street by waiting until tens of thousands of Americans had lost their savings (and retirement) before ratcheting up interest rates and cooling down the spec-market. The final loss to investors was an estimated $7 trillion dollars, an amount that pales in comparison to the current housing bubble which "The Economist" calls "the greatest bubble in history". Again, it was Greenspan who instigated the housing bubble by dropping rates to a paltry 1.5% following the decline in the stock market. Regrettably, the results will be even more ruinous this time.

Never the less, low interest rates are an effective way of creating bubbles and thereby transferring wealth from one class to another. The other two "tried-and-true" methods are tax cuts and hyperinflation; both parts of the Greenspan legacy. (Expect a weakening dollar as the effects of the massive trade deficit set in)

To argue that the Federal Reserve does not support a political agenda that favors elite interests, is to say that it is not a privately-owned institution (which it is) which operates in conjunction with major investors; particularly the energy giants, the mainstream media, arms-manufacturers, and the political establishment. The Federal Reserve is joined at the hip with the Bush White House. In fact, the administration is merely a reflection of the values and goals of the financial powerbrokers at the central banks.

Don't expect any complaints from Alan Greenspan about the rough-treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. The cadres of elites are of "one mind" on the current global crusade for a new world order. If that means torturing a few thousand innocent people; so be it.

Doomsday

There are numerous signs that the nation's free ride will soon be over. Gold is skyrocketing as perceptive investors see the cracks and fissures appearing in the economic foundation that binds the debtor-kingdom together. Twitchy investors are watching for news about Iran, rebel attacks in Nigeria, or a potential sell-off of greenbacks in China. Market analysts may feign equanimity but they are walking on the knifes-edge expecting the worse.

But, the worse is unavoidable; the country is dead broke. Last year alone Americans not only spent more than they earned for the first time since the great Depression; they also borrowed an additional $600 billion from their home equity to pay off credit card debt and consumer loans! This tells us that the all signs of growth in the economy are the result of credit spending. Home equity has become the new ATM card, demonstrating once again that the country is running on fumes.

This quarter's slow growth of 1.1%, shows that the well has run dry and consumer spending (which accounts for 70% of GDP) is down for the count. Interest rates are going up, the dollar will soon be sinking, energy costs are soaring, and the unemployment line is getting longer.

Time to find a nice comfy spot beneath the freeway on-ramp...and bring your own cardboard.

The Clinton strategy would have made the transition more agreeable, but the result of globalization is roughly the same. Businesses and jobs pack up and leave driving wages through the floor, while the social safety net continues to worsen by congressional edict. The main difference with Clinton is that he strengthened the dollar by balancing the budget and showed little appetite for creating the police-state apparatus that the Bush claque relishes.

The Bush administration is preparing for a quick but agonizing transition. They have painstakingly removed whatever laws stood in the way of autocratic government. The courts will brandish the rubber stamp for the supreme executive, the congress will languish as a ceremonial institution, and the compliant media will shower praise on the Dear Leader's iron-fisted methods of keeping the peace.

Economic disintegration is the catalyst for changing the fundamental institutions of government. The globalists in the White House have played a major role in numerous coups across the planet, all producing the same basic result; a military dictatorship with a strongman at the head of state. America is being readied for a similar transformation.

By Mike Whitney

[Spider]

So Clinton gets a pass for doing absolutley nothing to confront terrorism? Meanwhile Dubya, whether you like it or not, is saving your ass! Freedom, contrary to what liberals think, is not free. It is to be defended at all costs both monatary and in blood. If it cost 10 trillion dollars to prevent another 9-11 I'm all for it. It just means I can't buy that extra six pack of beer.
Hilarious! you cant realy belive this ............. go check out how many Democrats have served vs how many Republicans ..........Just a shame people like you dont take the time to research , Party first country second ............
and if you dont have a problem with this , then why did you vote for Bush in round 2 knowing full well Bush is giving tax cuts ?
confusion is a bítch no question .......................