At $500M a minute, Gates requests biggest war funding yet
war, war, war, war, and semi-trailer trucks full of money to support it...
and, to add an unfortunate note to the story, it was accompanied by this photo of troops training for iraq at ft. riley, kansas... note what i assume is a mannequin or dummy in the background, dressed (again, i assume) as an al qaeda terrorist...
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates asked Congress yesterday to approve an additional $42.3 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, bringing the Bush administration's 2008 war funding request to nearly $190 billion -- the largest single-year total for the wars so far.
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The administration's funding request -- which came on the same day that the Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling for the split of Iraq into three semiautonomous regions -- would boost war spending this year by nearly 15 percent and would bring the total cost of both conflicts to more than $800 billion since Sept. 11, 2001, according to the Congressional Research Service.
and, to add an unfortunate note to the story, it was accompanied by this photo of troops training for iraq at ft. riley, kansas... note what i assume is a mannequin or dummy in the background, dressed (again, i assume) as an al qaeda terrorist...
Labels: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Congress, Congressional Research Service, Ft Riley, Iraq, Iraq war funding proposal, Kansas, Robert Gates, terrorism
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9/27/2007
