Reply #37: And Folks that hold profits are more valuable than People

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These people are anything but conservative. Every time there is a crisis (created by them, may I add), they run to Congress for more cash, legislation and whatever else they can get out of the lap dogs.

This is an opportunity to get more money for their sweetheart corporate masters and perpetuate the War Machine on the backs of the rest of the population.

If they target Sadam and any around him for assignation, how much of a step would it be for a few well placed bombs be? Don’t police often consider people with prior offences suspect?

http://www.antiwar.com/
http://www.msnbc.com/news/961153.asp?0cv=CA01&cp1=1
Powell pitches U.S.
plan for wider U.N. role

By Glenn Kessler and Mike Allen
THE WASHINGTON POST

Sept. 4 — The White House has informed congressional leaders that it is preparing a new budget request for between $60 billion and $70 billion to help cover the mounting costs of the reconstruction and military occupation of Iraq, sources on Capitol Hill said last night.

THE PLANNED request — which congressional budget analysts said will be nearly double what Congress expected — reflects the deepening cost of the five-month-old U.S. occupation and serves as an acknowledgement by the administration that it vastly underestimated the cost of restoring order in Iraq and rebuilding the country’s infrastructure.
The estimate was disclosed on the same day the administration provided details of a draft U.N. resolution that it is preparing in an effort to win foreign pledges for more troops and money for Iraq. The U.S. draft would authorize a multinational peacekeeping force under U.S. military command and would invite the nascent Iraqi Governing Council to submit a plan and a timetable for writing a constitution, creating a government and holding elections.


The decisions to seek new funds from Congress and to try to strike a bargain at the United Nations signaled that President Bush is trying to resolve festering disputes over his administration’s Iraq policies before they turn into political liabilities. Both the rising cost of the military operations and the failure of the administration to share the peacekeeping burden in Iraq have prompted growing criticism on Capitol Hill and by Democratic presidential candidates.
The draft U.N. proposal appears to set up something unprecedented in U.N. history: a multinational force with a United Nations mandate in a country where the world body does not have political control or a say over who has political control.

REVERSAL FOR WHITE HOUSE
The initial reaction of U.N. diplomats was mixed, with many viewing the draft as a basis for difficult negotiations over how much power the administration would be willing to cede to win an international imprimatur that some countries have demanded in exchange for their participation in a security force.
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