House of Representative just passed $87 Billion for Iraq

[demnan]

heard just now on C-Span radio.

[bif]

1. Morans

n/t

[ixion]

2. ARGH!! Why is every other country in the world getting taxpayer dollars

except the US? What the hell? Why do people put up with this garbage? I'm sure Haliburton is thrilled, but that does nothing for our schools and roads and libraries. :argh:

[benfranklin1776]

4. Not to mention the rising number of medically uninsured.

They are of course expected by Bushco to get sick and die quietly since they can no longer be of use as "patriotic shoppers."

[goforit]

3. Just throw it all away!!!..........

I hope people are keeping track of these names of people who
are voting recklessly!!!

Their time will come due some day.

[Kool Kitty]

5. Did you hear De Fazio

(I think that is his name) ripping them a new a**hole over this vote? Great stuff. How soon can we find out who voted for this? And where can we find this info?

[sandnsea]

15. That's my guy!

He is awesome. I've never known him to be on the wrong side of an issue, never. Even back in the late 90's with the surplus, he was saying there was no real surplus, that it was social security taxes and that they needed to be protected. He was exactly right.

[Freddie Stubbs]

6. 6 Republicans voted against it.

http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=2003&rollnumber=562

[Kool Kitty]

7. Thanks, Freddie. n/t

[Bridget Burke]

8. Sheila Jackson-Lee voted against it.

She's my rep (Houston).

Yes, thanks.

[Freddie Stubbs]

9. 118 Democrats voted 'no,' 83 voted 'yes'

[bigluckyfeet]

11. My DLC Rep.

voted for it.Lampson

[fizzana]

10. I support the $20 billion on the following conditions

All the money goes directly to the Iraqis who decide how and where to use it.

After what we've done to them, $20 billion should just be the downpayment .

As it stands the $20 billion is nothing more than a money laundering operation passing our taxpayer money into the hands of the Halliburtons ($3 billion and counting) of the corporate world.

[realFedUp]

12. Senate just passed this also...

sigh.

[goobergunch]

16. Technically not yet

The vote is still ongoing. However, so far only 12 Senators have voted against.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=549189

[IkeWarnedUs]

13. The money isn't even needed for troop support

MoveOn.org sent this out yesterday in an afternoon edition of their e-mail alerts, the Daily MisLead.

A report released October 15, 2003 by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) says the defense department budget has sufficient money to fund the troops in Iraq through May 2004!

From the Daily Mislead:

<snip>

The (Congressional Research Service) CRS study released yesterday suggests that the recently-passed $368.2 billion 2004 Defense funding bill plus the emergency funding Congress passed at the start of the war provides the Army alone with $37 billion in funding for personnel and operations and maintenance, enough to fund operations through early May.2

President Bush requested the money in September, saying, "We have conducted a thorough assessment of our military and reconstruction needs in Iraq."3 But even prior to the CRS survey's conclusions, Republican aides said that the administration inflated its budget request in part to avoid having to ask for additional funds the following year -- during the election season.4

more: http://www.misleader.com/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df10162003.html

Here is a link a pdf of the CRS report. Note it is provided by Jan Schakowsky's House site:

http://www.house.gov/schakowsky/04-Supp-availability_of_Army_funds-memo-15Oct03.pdf

[realFedUp]

14. They did trim to $85 billion

wow....what's a billion when you plan to bankrupt
your own country...