The Nation: Another $102 Billion

[marmar]

BLOG | Posted 04/05/2008 @ 11:15am
Another $102 Billion



Do you think the US should spend another $102 billion on the Iraq War?

Well, later this month, Congress will consider President Bush's demand for just this amount to continue full steam ahead with his disastrous occupation of Iraq. This is on top of the $562 billion Congress has already authorized Bush to spend on Iraq since 2003. (For a good look at what we could be doing at home with the money we're using in Iraq, check Robert Pollin's lead piece in the Nation's recent special issue on the costs of war.) It's unlikely that Congress will do anything other than roll over but if sufficient pressure can be applied, votes can change. It's up to the antiwar public to press legislators to make every effort to get us out of Iraq.

Write your elected reps and implore them to reject Bush's Iraq budget request.

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[jimshoes]

1. When you're gambling with someone else's money

it really doesn't matter if you keep on losing does it? At least it seems that way with * spending US taxpayer's (and their children's and grand children's) money.

[unblock]

3. gambling implies there's at least a chance of an upside....

embezzling is closer to the truth.

[Quantess]

2. Hey, what's another 102 billion? (eom)

[superkia]

4. Control of all of that oil is worth every penny the average citizen...

earns and endless lives of those same people, to the elite. Congress will continue to spend the money because they believe in blood for oil, most of them showed us that when they went to war with no evidence. I know that (D)Dennis Kucinich and (R)Ron Paul were against it and called it for what it was but they all ignored the facts, lied to us all and gave bush the power to go get that oil. The job isn't finished until we have a puppet in place and rights to their oil.

Its a shame that as many of us that there are in this country, we cant organize a way to peacefully shut the country down and make our voices heard as a majority. I guess that enough Americans have yet to be hit by this war directly and until that happens, its really not that important?


You would think we would all come together and realize that eventually we will all be hit in some way or another, history will repeat itself.


First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller

[OneBlueSky]

5. Congress: "Just say NO!" . . .

it's WA-A-A-A-A-A-Y past time for ending this obscenity, and Congress has the power to do it . . . every time they give BushCo more money for the war, they weaken their own power and increase the power of the executive . . . not to mention authorizing the murder of countless Iraqis, the ongoing destruction and contamination of their nation, the killing and maiming of hundreds more American troops, and further degradation of the American position in the international community . . .

it's time Congress woke up and did what should have been years ago -- cut off war funding and bring the troops home . . . the continued funding of the war is perhaps history's most egregious exercise in futility . . .