Bush May Seek Billions for Iraq After Elections

[barbaraann]

By Adam Entous

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) may seek an additional $40 billion or more for military operations in Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites) next year -- on top of the $400-billion military budget he will send to Congress next month, congressional sources and budget analysts said on Wednesday.

But Bush is unlikely to send the request to Congress until after the November presidential election to minimize any political damage, the sources said.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040121/ts_nm/bush_iraq_dc_2


At what point do you suppose the dittoheads will wake up?

[pdx_prog]

1. It's going to take

that (and maybe more) to pull out of Iraq. Whoever gets elected will unfortunately be saddled with that extra cost...:(

[booksenkatz]

2. Tell him to go bum off someone else for a change

We don't have a penny to our name, our charge cards are beyond maxed out, our children are starving, our war vets are homeless, our senior citizens have no medicine... tell him to piss off, find someone else to finance his bloody G.I. Joe game.
:tired&angry:

[leftchick]

3. Great catch barbaraann!

Yeah you ditto heads out there.... who the hell you think is going to pay for the chimps* neverending Wars!? First clue... it ain't gonna be the WEALTHY chimp corporate buddies....

[barbaraann]

8. It's getting a lot of attention on Yahoo.

Message posters are going crazy!

[Lorien]

4. They will never wake up

they would rather be homeless or dead than confront the fact that they are nothing more than anti-American, pro-fascist brainwashed lemmings.

[bluestateguy]

5. Bush goes back to the ATM on Iraq...

If he loses and is a lame duck the Congress may be able to tell him to lump it. If he wins, or steals it, the Democrats will probably not offer any resistence because they will be lectured by the Washington chattering class that the "president has a mandate, and must never be opposed."

[Enraged_Ape]

6. $40 billion is chump change for Mr. Cheney. Make him pay.

Cheney and his Halliburton buddies should pony up. Have them write it off their taxes as an investment expense.

I'm sure Kenny Boy Lay can cover for whatever they fall short on.

[peterh]

7. It will certainly be interesting to see

how the Democratic candidate-elect will ultimately deal with this issue and since I’m not at all optimistic about congress changing much in it’s makeup, the political gamesmanship between the NEW Pres. and congress on Iraq should be intense……I rather expect the repugs to do a 180 and actually get fiscally conservative and pin the ensuing problems on the New Pres…. and Dems in general….

[barbaraann]

9. Please rate the story on Yahoo, everyone!

Thanks!

[Skidmore]

10. I can smell

the rump aroastin'--should be fork tender by November.