War Without End
Aug 29th, 2007 at 6:39 am by Susie
More money down the rathole, and of course the Democrats will go along with it. Charlie Brown, meet football:
President Bush plans to ask Congress next month for up to $50 billion in additional funding for the war in Iraq, a White House official said yesterday, a move that appears to reflect increasing administration confidence that it can fend off congressional calls for a rapid drawdown of U.S. forces.
The request — which would come on top of about $460 billion in the fiscal 2008 defense budget and $147 billion in a pending supplemental bill to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — is expected to be announced after congressional hearings scheduled for mid-September featuring the two top U.S. officials in Iraq. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker will assess the state of the war and the effect of the new strategy the U.S. military has pursued this year.
The request is being prepared now in the belief that Congress will be unlikely to balk so soon after hearing the two officials argue that there are promising developments in Iraq but that they need more time to solidify the progress they have made, a congressional aide said.
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Bush wants $50 billion more for Iraq…
President Bush plans to ask Congress next month for up to $50 billion in additional funding for the …
If my blog was working, you’d see the details of my call to harry reid’s office.
BMT reports that Reid’s spokesman said saomething like “the time for blank checks is over”, and I just had to laugh.
Sure it is buddy. SURE it is…
then they’ll blame it all on the GOP betraying them. Again.