Bush = $100 Billion?

Question

George W. has just asked congress for another $100 Billion for waging a war that's become a civil war, what's going on.

Answer 1

You're pathetic. wanna here a fact? 70% of Americans disagree with our war, and there have been NO notable protests. NONE.

Why don't you go outside and form a protest instead of spamming YA with questions? George Bush doesn't read this stuff, he goes to work. Go there to voice your opinion.

Answer 2

First off, 90% of that money is going to Iraq only. The other 10 billion will be spent in Afghanistan. I think that giving money to Afghanistan is good as long as the Afghan government doesn't rely solely on the US for financial stability. After all, this is the country that holds many of the terrorists that are still being sought after by NATO, since Bush is clearly looking for something else and not bin Laden. Also, if Afghanistan does get rebuilt and stabilized, the international community will at least be thankful to America for that, including the Arab world. Iraq should be left alone. If their people want to kill each other, fine. I didn't see the British or French coming to America to try to stop our civil war.

Answer 3

Aw, that's peanuts. Peanuts that are going to waste for a stupid thing, but peanuts nonetheless.

Wanna really get angry? Guess how much we pay PER DAY in interest on the national debt that George W. Bush has run up in the past six years...go ahead, guess:


$4.2 BILLION.

Per day.

In interest payments only -- that doesn't pay off the principal.

That means every 24 days, we pay more in interest on W's spend.but.don't.tax budgets than this request for his trumped-up war. And over 98% of the money we borrowed that we're paying interest on came from foreign governments -- so that's $4.2 BILLION per day that leaves the US, enriches a foreign government (mostly Saudi Arabia and Japan), never to return.

Now *that* is your tax money at work.

Answer 4

So

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16928315/from/RS.3/

Answer 5

No, you are wrong. He asked for another $245 Billion.

He knows he only has a few more months left to pay back his supporters, so he is milking the public purse for every dollar he can.

Most of that $245B is going to Halliburton, Bechtel, Boeing and other GOP supporters. The implicit demand is that they kick back some of that to help elect the next GOP president.

Follow the money.

Answer 6

The bipartisan Iraq study group opposed such a move in no uncertain terms. "Sustained increases in U.S. troop levels would not solve the fundamental cause of violence in Iraq, which is the absence of national reconciliation," the report says. "Meanwhile, America's military capacity is stretched thin: we do not have the troops or equipment to make a substantial, sustained increase in our troop presence. Increased deployments to Iraq would also necessarily hamper our ability to provide adequate resources for our efforts in Afghanistan or respond to crises around the world." The ISG report emphasizes the need to engage more effectively in the battle of ideas in the Arab world. First, the report says, Bush "should state that the United States does not seek permanent military bases in Iraq." (Last June, the New York Times reported the administration was making plans for "maintaining a force of roughly 50,000 troops there for years to come.") Second, the U.S. must show a "renewed and sustained commitment" to a "comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace on all fronts." Gen. John P. Abizaid, until recently the senior commander in the Middle East, insists that the answer to our problems there is not military. "You have to internationalize the problem. You have to attack it diplomatically, geo-strategically," he said. His assessment is supported by Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the senior American commander in Iraq, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who only recommend releasing forces with a clear definition of the goals for the additional troops. A surge is not acceptable to the people in this country -- we have voted overwhelmingly against this war in polls (about 80 percent of the public is against escalation, and a recent Military Times poll shows only 38 percent of active military want more troops sent) and at the polls.

Answer 7

Perhaps he thinks he's in "Brewster's Millions". The goal is to spend lots of money and have nothing to show for it. In the movie, the race for a political office came at the end, not the beginning. Perhaps this is the beginning of the end.

I hear the embassy that's been built there is really pretty.

Answer 8

We broke it, it's up to us to fix it. Like it or not, we're in the hole we dug, and we have to at least plant a tree now. Bailing out now would do more damage to the United States reputation than invading a sovereign nation without provocation or justification has already done. And shorting the troops is NOT the answer. The 21,500 troops may be enough to stabilize Baghdad, but not Iraq. "Too little too late" I admit, but we now have a responsibility to Iraq, The Mid-East, and to the World!

Answer 9

It's like Monopoly money to him and he know Congress has to give it to him. The guy is more king the President now.

Answer 10

i belive that takes the grand total to 245 billion. wow imagine what we could do with all that money in this country... instead of a country where they blow themselves up just kill innocent people..