Bush Seeks Funding For Iraq, Afghanistan

AP 4/23

CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush is pushing Congress to provide more money for combat and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan - funds the Pentagon says it needs by the first week of May.

"I applaud the House and Senate for their strong support of my supplemental funding request for our troops serving on the front lines," Bush said Saturday in his radio address.

"This funding will help provide the weapons, ammunition, spare parts and equipment that our troops need to do their job," he said. "I urge Congress to come together to resolve their remaining differences, and send me a bill quickly."

House and Senate negotiators are expected to act soon to sort out differences between their versions of the $81 billion spending bill. Both versions would push the total cost of combat and reconstruction past $300 billion since the attacks of Sept 11. 2001.

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Bush, who is spending the weekend at his Texas ranch, also prodded Congress to support cuts to Medicaid, the health care program for the poor and disabled that is run by federal and state agencies.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050423/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

That's our George. Flushing hundreds of billions of borrowed money into a sewer called Iraq, all the while trying to beat some deserving Americans out of money for health care.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050423/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush


"I applaud the House and Senate for their strong support of my supplemental funding request for our troops serving on the front lines," Bush said Saturday in his radio address.


"This funding will help provide the weapons, ammunition, spare parts and equipment that our troops need to do their job," he said. "I urge Congress to come together to resolve their remaining differences, and send me a bill quickly."


House and Senate negotiators are expected to act soon to sort out differences between their versions of the $81 billion spending bill. Both versions would push the total cost of combat and reconstruction past $300 billion since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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Bush, who is spending the weekend at his Texas ranch, also prodded Congress to support cuts to Medicaid, the health care program for the poor and disabled that is run by federal and state governments.

Wasn't a certain presidential candidate mocked by the GOP for stating that the war cost $200 billion?

Yup, bush's War was supposed to cost a lousy billion. :eyes:

No affordable healthcare here in the USA is the price we pay for keeping chaos and death flowing in the ME.

Wow, what a choice~!

Sue

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exactly is their job, again?????

They seem to have taken ~$2 billion that didn't belong to them, anyway.

and less money for the poor, the disabled, the elderly, and all the other weaker members of our society. If this represents the actions of a president who claims to be a good Christian, who never shuns an opportunity to present himself as the "values" president, then either my understanding of Christianity is deeply flawed, or he's full of shit.

This is a perfect opportunity to point out to the fundie base, they who piously self-proclaim their own righteousness, and who want every aspect of American life run by so-called Christian values, that the Christ they claim to follow would hardly snatch money from the poor and hand it over to the rich so that the rich could obliterate a country and cause untold suffering. Is this really what Americans want?

Do we want to cause misery here in order to further more misery abroad? There is something very, very wrong in America today, and that is the ever growing power struggle to turn us into a theocracy, run by evil and greedy men, who hide behind a mask of Christianity. The sad thing is that they are actually in the minority as far as numbers go, but they have duped the American people by using fear, lies, and false hoods, which hand in hand with Diebold are about to deliver a once proud nation a very, very ugly future.

People need to wake up, our leaders need to continue to speak out, as Kerry recently did, and we need to stop apologizing for being liberal and progressive. I hope it isn't already too late.

As he's funneling our hard-earned tax dollars into the Sewer named Iraq, he's creating a new one alongside his very own Dante's Inferno right here in the U.S.

I was visiting with my parents yesterday. We were talking about our relatives from Sweden. My dad was amazed at how well they all seem to be doing, even the ones who haven't had such great jobs or good luck in the Lottery of Life.

They all have homes, have a nice Volvo in the driveway, and most of them own vacation homes. They travel to sunny, warm places during the winter (it gets quite cold in Sweden), like Tunisia, Costa Brava, Mallorca. Two of my uncles own vacation homes in Southern Spain.

My dad said, "how can they afford all this stuff? Here I'm working like crazy, can just barely afford to make ends meet". He was stunned that the US would lag behind Europe in terms of standard of living.

"That's easy", I told him. Sweden has free health care. Your education is paid for, even university studies. I have a friend who became a doctor in Sweden, paid nothing to get his medical studies.

Sweden doesn't pour money down the rat hole on armaments, weapons, maintaining vast armies for conquest. Most of the tax money goes back to the people.

Who said that war is good for the economy?

More money for Iraq (oh, and Afghanistan) while asking for bigger cuts in Medicaid. But those two facts, even set side-by-side, will be too big a chasm for the great minds at ABC, CBS, NBC or the cable outlets to cross.

Why, there's just no way our popular war-time president, the most magnificent Christian George W. Bush, would favor armaments over the health of citizenry. Well, unless the armament providers were his overrich friends and the citizens were, you know, poor.