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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 01:50 PM
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Poll question: Should Congress give Bush another $600 Million to hunt Iraq WMD's?
Officials Say Bush Seeks $600 Million to Hunt Iraq Arms

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1059480284927

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 — The Bush administration is seeking more than $600 million from Congress to continue the hunt for conclusive evidence that Saddam Hussein's government had an illegal weapons program, officials said Wednesday.

The money, part of the White House's request for $87 billion in supplemental spending on Iraq and Afghanistan, comes on top of at least $300 million that has already been spent on the weapons search, the officials said.

The budget figures for the weapons search are included in the classified part of the administration's supplemental appropriations request, and have not been made public. The size of the request suggests the White House is determined to keep searching for unconventional weapons or evidence that they were being developed under Mr. Hussein. The search so far has turned up no solid evidence that Iraq had chemical, biological or nuclear weapons when the American invasion began in March, according to administration officials.

Counting the money already spent, the total price tag for the search will approach $1 billion.

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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 01:55 PM
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1. Only if He PAYS for It
by raising taxes or making other cuts.

I can't believe that Bush feels he can spend any amount of money with no responsibility pay for his proposals. It's absolutely ludicrous.
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benddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 01:56 PM
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2. not no but Hell no
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Zero Gravitas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 02:09 PM
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5. Right on
There should be a "hell No!" option for the poll.

Of course if you take the Rovian approach to this maybe it should be "yes" so come next November and the Bush* regime has pissed away an extra billion $ looking for non-existant WMD, it will be one more example of their fiscal irresponsibility and general incometence.
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judge_smales Donating Member (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 01:56 PM
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3. Right after we give OJ

A few grand to find "the real killers"
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damnraddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 01:59 PM
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4. I can't see giving him hundreds of millions of dollars to ...
plant fake evidence of WMDs in Iraq.
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amazona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 02:09 PM
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6. for crying out loud
If there were any to be had, they would have been found by now.

Give me the $600 million and I'll manufacture and plant the durn things myself. Sheesh. Hollywood could do it for $200 million.

Any WMD ready to roll and be used in March would have been used and/or discovered in March.


just cuz they're all on drugs, they think we're in a fog too!
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