Emergency war supplemental hides millions

[sabra]

http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060220-015649-7679r

Emergency war supplemental hides millions

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Buried in last week's $72.4 billion emergency supplemental appropriation bill for the war on terror is nearly half a billion dollars worth of military construction.

The bulk of the $485 million requested will go "to fund various military construction projects to support U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan," according to the supplemental. "The requested funds," the document goes on, "will provide force protection measures, enhanced airfield operations and safety, power distribution, water treatment and distribution infrastructure, operational facilities and improved logistics, and associated planning and design efforts."

But the supplemental also includes $35 million new money for the expansion of the National Security Agency's top secret listening post at Menwith Hill in Yorkshire, England, and authority to spend $700 million appropriated in previous years for construction or expansion of NSA facilities in Augusta, Ga., and Kunia, Hawaii.

[Trevelyan]

1. More of the same --- Why isn't Congress overseeing the theft of our

treasury for Bush's cronies??

Emptywheel wrote today on Kos that the Third World countries that cheney et. al. used to steal from have been smart enough to counter them in recent years and that now they are "colonizing the USA".

[MADem]

2. We can rebuild EyeRack, but NOLA is on her own... n/t

[MadMaddie]

3. That's what I thought....

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$485 million requested will go "to fund various military construction projects to support U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan," according to the supplemental
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That could rebuild homes for the Gulf coast residents and rebuild businesses.

This is sick politics.

When is enough enough?