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| Bush asks $70 bn in partial 2009 war funding |
| 2008-01-29 |
| WASHINGTON - The Bush administration will ask the US Congress next week for $70 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other related operations for part of the 2009 fiscal year, the Pentagon said on Monday. ‘We’ll send up the fiscal year ’09 budget (next Monday),’ Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said. ‘It will have a request for an emergency allowance to support activities related to the global war on terror into 2009 ... in the amount of 70 billion.’ The funding would be in addition to the administration’s request for the regular Pentagon budget which is to be presented next week. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, Congress has approved $691 billion to pay for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and such related activities as Iraq reconstruction, the Congressional Budget Office said last week. Of the total, the CBO estimated that $440 billion had been spent on the war in Iraq. In past years, members of Congress have pressed the administration to submit full war funding requests together with the regular Pentagon budget so that both can be subjected to the same level of scrutiny at the same time. The administration has requested a total of nearly $190 billion in war funding for the 2008 fiscal year. But Congress has not approved that amount. In December, it approved a $70 billion ‘bridge fund’ in partial war funding for the current fiscal year. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 Money better spent if $70M allocated to destroying select mosques and the rest invested in domestic energy production (and domestic good production in general). Currently 8-900 billion dollars annually goes into OPEC treasuries vs. $200 billion pre Sept 11, 2001. As long as muslims control the price of energy, we are not going to outspend them in this war. On the contrary, they will generate crises to further suck the world's wealth to advance islam. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-01-29 11:15 |
| #2 I wouldn't be surprised to see some Al Qaeda funds going into the dhimocratic race just to keep the fire off their feet. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-01-29 09:56 |
| #1 George is going all the way to next January taking it to Al Qaeda. There will be two groups that will be glad when he finishes his term, Islam's Al Qaeda and the Islam's Dhimmicrats. |
| Posted by: www 2008-01-29 00:18 |