Bush Administration Seeks $245B for Wars

[AFA]

WASHINGTON Feb 2, 2007 (AP)— The Bush administration will ask for another $100 billion for military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year and seek $145 billion for 2008, a senior administration official said Friday.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2844805


Related article from Reuters

Bush seeks $100 billion for Iraq in '07;
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2845227

 

[Akalon]

Yup, it's sad to see so much money poured into war resources when it could be spent on much better things... like my savings fund.

In all seriousness though, the United States should concentrate on fixing up their own country's woes.

 

[AFA]

Murdering bastards. It makes me sick that some of my tax money is going to this war. Do you realize what that kind of money could do for our inner cities, for our education system, for our below poverty line families, for our ENVIRONMENTAL CLEAN UP OPERATIONS... or for Africa...

Fox

I said from day ONE, it was going to be another Vietnam, and now you hear all the rhetoric, that we can't leave Iraq because of all those who will have died in vain. (Vietnam circa early 70's).

Biggest blunder was Rumsfeld getting rid of Generals in his staff that didn't agree with his minimizing the damage and cost, and that they didn't need 250,000 troops, only 50,000, like everyone in the room was just too stupid to get it.

I believe this is the TV episode that had a lot of revealing information about this and other stupidities.

90 minute segment in 6 short parts, Rumsfeld's War;
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/view/

Other information not yet on video, "The Invasion of Iraq";
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/

 

[Big P13]

I'll bet that for that amount of money, the government could easily rebuild every house that was destroyed in New Orleans.

 

[IceOne]

I'll bet that for that amount of money, the government could easily rebuild every house that was destroyed in New Orleans.

Agree. But a successfull war give more votes to the republicans =/

 

[Jizm]

I think we have a replacement for Nightfly. Apparently msn news is more unavailable to us as cnn.com. AFA no offense, but I think we all know how to find a news site...

 

[jod0565]

...and the US soldier gets paid how much?

 

[Big P13]

I was curious about the total cost of the Iraq war, and I came across this link when I was searching:

http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

It says it has a running total of the cost so far. It's at about 365 billion right now. Is this accurate? Is this 245 billion on top of this? Bush is asking for an amount roughly 100 billion dollars less than what the total cost has been up till now?

 

[KungFuDude]

Agree. But a successfull war give more votes to the republicans =/

Yep, they timed it well for the then Presidential election. Too bad those idiots didn't look further down the road. Like how it was going to affect our country for the next, oh...few decades.

 

[Roughneck]

AFA : $245 Bn is a conservative estimate. Given monetary inflation, the real cost will easily rise as the years pass.

By the way - $245 Bn doesn't include intrest rate and costs of borrowing. As such, the real figure as of right now itself is far higher than $245 Bn.

Instead of being so negative towards someone with the vision to start a thread about something interesting, why not put your negativity where it belongs (ouch) and walk out of the thread

You should listen to your own advice Reverend, and walk out of threads you bring nothing but negativity to.

cheers,

 

[Werewolf]

245 Billion Dollars for a losing (and illegal) war?

Give the money to me! I'm sure I could spend it much more useful...

 

[yaheem]

I said from day ONE, it was going to be another Vietnam, and now you hear all the rhetoric, that we can't leave Iraq because of all those who will have died in vain. (Vietnam circa early 70's).

Well history has a habit of repeating itself. What happened after LBJ quit and Nixon took over? Will whatever happened, happen again? (sorry I wasnt around when all this drama was taking place):dunno:

 

[AFA]

Same poor planning in Iraq as Vietnam. Civilian leaders tried to run things from the point of an automated war, while minimizing casualty estimates and it dragged on with no way to end it.

The vid I posted above is quite good, I'm watching it now;
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/view/

 

[alexios]

Same poor planning in Iraq as Vietnam. Civilian leaders tried to run things from the point of an automated war, while minimizing casualty estimates and it dragged on with no way to end it.

The vid I posted above is quite good, I'm watching it now;
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/view/

I don't think it's about who's running it....I just think it was poorly conceived and poorly executed.

 

[Legzman]

What a complete fuckin waste of money! I agree we can't leave at this point...we should have never been there in the first place!