Senate OKs $81B for Iraq, Afghanistan

[Fire Walk With Me]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&ncid=716&e=3&u=/ap/20050421/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq_spending

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly approved $81 billion for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in a spending bill that would push the total cost of combat and reconstruction past $300 billion.

[TroubleMan]

1. How many health care coverages is that? How many school lunches?

This is so stupid.

For that amount of money we could just pay the opposition in Iraq and Afghanistan to go away.

[Bryn]

2. More IOU's on Social Security

I see they're still taking money out of my paychecks for SS

[Dr Fate]

3. Folks who want $$$ for USA schools & healthcare are "Socialists"...

...but those who think we should "throw money" at Iraq are "patriotic."

2 + 2= 5

[realFedUp]

4. $300 billion dollar gamble

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Congress has passed four similar emergency spending measures for the wars since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. This one would put the overall cost of combat and reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan — as well as Pentagon operations against terrorists worldwide — past $300 billion.

The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, says lawmakers previously approved $228 billion. The latest money is to last through Sept. 30, the end of the current budget year. Pentagon officials have said they will have to ask for more money for 2006.

[chlamor]

5. The Warfare State

Permanent War

[Corgigal]

6. hey all you DU'ers

Quit the bitching.

Work, work , work. America needs some new shoes.

[chlamor]

7. The Arms Economy

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

– General Douglas MacArthur

[nolabels]

8. I heard the vote was like 99-0 or something

This is a time when I see how much the corporate installed government represents the people.
Please don't tell how great them so called Representatives are in congress are, because I can't hear you

http://antiwar.com/

[chlamor]

9. Out Now!

The Soldiers

Down some cold field in a world unspoken
the young men are walking together, slim and tall,
and though they laugh to one another, silence is not broken;
there is no sound however clear they call.

They are speaking together of what they loved in vain here,
but the air is too thin to carry the things they say.
They were young and golden, but they came on pain here,
and their youth is age now, their gold is grey.

Yet their hearts are not changed, and they cry to one another,
'What have they done with the lives we laid aside?
Are they young with our youth, gold with our gold, my brother?
Do they smile in the face of death, because we died?'

Down some cold field in a world uncharted
the young seek each other with questioning eyes.
They question each other, the young, the golden hearted,
of the world that they were robbed of in their quiet paradise.

Humbert Wolfe, Requiem: The Soldier (1916)

[GOPBasher]

10. That's more money for a kids to pay back, since we

can't actually tax rich people now to pay our bills. :grr:

[leftchick]

11. $592 MILLION for the New US Headquarters in Baghdad....

aka: The new US embassy where the real government will reside.

<snip>

The Senate bill also would provide $592 million to build a U.S. embassy in Baghdad. The House bill does not fund the construction of a fortified diplomatic compound.


The Senate added a requirement that the Pentagon report every three months to Congress on how many Iraqi security forces are trained and how many U.S. troops are needed.

[Javaman]

12. Bad Hollywood Producer mentality....

There are two types of producers out in LA, good ones and bad ones. The good ones solve problems, the bad ones throw money at it.

[chlamor]

13. This is only the most important story

in the last day or so.

Everyone who voted for this is culpable for the death of Iraqi children and the decimation of social programs here as well as massive environmental destruction at the hands of the war makers and war profiteers.

[ausiedownunderground]

14. Is his not what American's spend their tax payer dollars on?

The "Rest of The World" expects American tax payer's dollars to be spent on "Weapons"! it's the American way!

[justicebuilder]

15. It's OK

This $81 billion is going to do it. I can just feel it.