BREAKING: Military Will Request $100B For Iraq Next Yr Murtha Reveals

BREAKING: Military Will Request $100B For Iraq Next Year, Murtha Reveals
During his response to President Bush this afternoon, Murtha revealed, for the first time, that the Pentagon will ask for an additional $100 billion for operations in Iraq next year:

MURTHA: Twenty years it’s going to take to settle this thing. The American people is not going to put up with it; can’t afford it. We have spent $277 billion. That’s what’s been appropriated for this operation. We have $50 billion sitting on the table right now in our supplemental, or bridge fund we call it, in the Appropriations Committee. They’re going to ask for another $100 billion next year.

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QUESTION: Can we come back to the $100 billion? You said that you expect the military to ask for $100 billion. Where are you getting that figure?

MURTHA: Where I get all my figures: the military.

Murtha has reason to know. He’s the ranking member of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. The total cost of the Iraq war is quickly approaching the cost of Vietnam, which lasted 8 years.
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/07/murtha-100b/

Murtha Responds to Bush Speech:
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it's cold down in the Delta these nights, and how many people are still living in tents?

We'll be spending!!!

That's $11,415,525.15 PER HOUR!!!

That's $190,258.75 PER MINUTE!!!

We're going to spend $3179.98 PER SECOND IN IRAQ NEXT YEAR!!!!

At that rate, the entire Plame investigation to date costs what about 4 minutes and 27 seconds costs us in Iraq!!!!!

in.

... The National Priorities Project at this link: <http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182>

They have links that break down how the money we've spent so far killing people in Iraq could have been spent, like:

The War In Iraq Costs
$224,885,209,704 (at the moment I copied this, it's higher now)

Instead, we could have built
2,024,880
additional housing units.

or

The War In Iraq Costs
$224,885,378,935

Instead, we could have provided
10,901,947
students four-year scholarships at public universities.

or

The War In Iraq Costs
$224,885,509,721

Instead, we could have hired
3,897,293
additional public school teachers for one year.

<http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182>

With the new additional medicare cost out of SS, and the stupid Rx($3600 per year minimum cost), millions right here will DIE. IT HAS TO END! Americans should not pay any more taxes period until things are back to normal, where we take better care of our own first! I plan to change my W-4 Jan.1 to pay nothing next year!

It's like Vietnam never happened.

posters of the Freerepublic!

in NOLA and the gulf coast. Plus we could build real flood/hurricane protection like the Dutch and British have.

The money's the fuel that prolongs the war. That's perhaps where we can legislate some of our exit plans by forcing amendments to the spending bill.

will continue to grow, and we will bleed money and blood to try and take over a land that is not ours.

Assuming the high number of 100,000. Counting actual combatants it would probably be about $10mil per corpse.

Bush and the generals need a good accountant to figure out the profit/loss of the investment.

Hell, we could probably buy most of them off for a few grand and a ticket to Disneyland.

Iraq! Couldn't we have just given them the money to overthrow Saddam?

he knew they were going to ask for THAT MUCH MONEY? Go Murtha!

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If we lose Iraq, we'll lose Laos, and then Cambodia, and then Thailand and then who knows where Communist aggression will stop?

PRICELESS!!!! :puke:

Hmm, how many more meaningless cliches can we dredge up?

Does it get any more meaningless than that?

and all the rest.

to stop this war and we now have an open rebellion
. when murtha said we were going
to leave 50 billion dollars worth of our military hardware
in iraq i knew the generals have had enough of the boy king
and his babylon adventure

:sarcasm:

In this light, $250 billion spread out over several years to rebuild the Gulf Coast seems like a Blue Light Special compared to $87 billion here, $100 billion there, and all to create more destruction. :grr: :banghead:

I DON'T want to see *'s war fought on the backs of the poorest and most vulnerable children in our country! I am a preschool teacher, working to ready at-risk children for kindergarten.
Congress is proposing to CUT funds for Head Start. They should be finding MORE $$ for Head Start, NOT making cuts!
You can click on the link below to send a message to your Congress person urging them to oppose the plan to slash 35,000 Head Start slots for America’s poorest kids...
http://www.saveheadstart.org/

:mad:

I had to do it twice, got an error message the first time after I hit CONFIRM.

Is anyone else having problems with petitions?

For a while I was getting a lot of error messages when tried to sign. Had Firefox and went back to Explorer because was having problems uploading photos to my blogspot.

http://katrinafemacamps.blogspot.com/

Not much less, but a fraction. Still plenty of money to go to "defense contractors" with sham companies who turn around and fund the GOP under the table - with our tax dollars. No need to get greedy. Take, say, $20 billion for Tom DeLay and his pals from our pockets. Let's not get vulgar about it. Hey, maybe the media will look into it! Bob Woodward could investigate - oops, I guess not. Damn.

with the amount we've spent on this goddamn war.

Given EVERY CHILD in the world basic immunizations for 74 YEARS.

Hired 4 MILLION new teachers.

:sarcasm:

;)

In Iraq, we LITERALLY could burn all the money we've spent so far and it'd be more productive --- at least some who are homeless could gather around and not be cold for a night.

This man is talking. He's telling it like it is. I remember reading some stuff that Stan Goff had written a few years ago.

This was when I was looking for some answers and didn't find any.

Mr. Murtha is saying exactly what Goff said.

Thanks very much for posting.

Instead, we destroy, kill hundreds of thousands, and enrich a few corporations while diviing this country and the world.

WORST.PRESIDENT.EVER.
WORST.ADMINISTRATION.EVER.
WORST.PARTY.EVER.

inflation corrected dollars!

All I can say is Wow!

http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/other/stats/warcost.htm

I cannot accept this, it is HORRIBLE! We must do something. We are a BANKRUPT COUNTRY!

We are being ran DIRECTLY INTO THE GROUND by these neo-con fascist pigs.

Someone organize a group to Washington for Christmas Eve day, anti-war pro-peace march(perfect for Jesus' holy night of birth celebration) and I'll be there!

These bastards must be stopped by those in the gov't who know this idiot is destroying our country and we must support them.

DU has the ability to send out a gazillion emails to weblinks, DU users, and news agencies to put out a call to tens of thousands of people to go to the white house! I'll do it.

Christmas is about peace, and how can we let them continue to have an illegal war, which is clearly STATE TERRORISM and assault on a country that didn't provoke us, and still act like there's such "PEACE" in the world, as millions will sing carols to in churches all across the country.

Like I said, I'll go there, so if I see anything about it, whether it be Christmas eve or new year's eve, or some other day, I'll do it.

that so-called expert thought it would cost the allocated 18 billion and then token amounts. maybe that was just the graft to Halliburton.

At least they got that part figured out.

and they want to get rid of Amtrak, they are not doing anything for New Orleans

we still have tons of homeless and jobless people here..................


I guess we should all buy Halliburton stock?

100 Billion is about how much they have in their coffers right now. Blood money, all of it.

Crimes against the human race!

It's a long way from the worst idea ever proposed, but you'd have to do it in such a way as to single Halliburton out because of its corruption. Otherwise, it might set a precedent neo-cons could use against liberal businesses in the future.

And Jesus, another 100 billion?!

Now WAY is congress going to spend that sort of money.

inside to avoid freezing, it's 12 degrees / wind chill below zero. There doesn't seem to be enough space for them. :grr: :cry:

If I lived there instead of 50 miles away, I'd go downtown & bring a few home but the rural roads are icy and I don't have a 4wd vehicle.

Carried in part by our friends the Chinese.
About $250 per American this year.
(That much in movies would be a lot more entertaining.)

..by this stupid stupid administration.

C'mon, ya'll, rally behind the DLC's call to deamand VICTORY from the "inept"(DLC's term) W! Yay for the DLC and their wholehearted endorsement of W! Woo-hoo!

:sarcasm:

A distinction without a difference. Regardless of party affiliation, one imperialist is as bad as another.

Follow Cindy Sheehan's lead: no votes for pro-war politicians!

What if we "win" the war in Iraq? What exactly have we won?

OK, no more Saddam Hussein, I'll concede that. Was he worth over 2100 US soldiers and hundreds of billions of dollars? I think not.

What else have we won?

Regional stability? What about Syria, Iran and Afghanistan (which is going to hell again)? More people in the region hate us for invading and terrorist recruitment has sky rocketed because we gave them a cause. Again, I think not; no regional stability.

What else have we won?

Security? Iraq, it turns out, had no WMDs, no connection to 9/11, no connection Al Qaida, no terrorist camps. Once again, I think not; no more security than we had before. If anything we are more susceptible to attack AND natural disasters because our National Guard is in Iraq instead of here where they belong. If anything, we are actually less secure.

What have we won?

up to our noses was ever called due and payable, it could throw us back to the 1929 depresssion. For the life of me, I don't know why we're not focusing the need to get out on the money that's going in.

I heard tonight only 12 of the 29 billion appropriated for reconstruction has been spent. What the hell does it take for people to realize this war is intentionally being strung out, a wrecking ball up side their head?

Mike Malloy said bush's public opinion polls were up 3 per cent. Mike seemed really down, depressed, and out of sorts tonight. If the idiots out there are buying bush's lies again, I can sure see why.

I guess nothing short of an all-out economic bust will show brain dead Americans that THEY HAVE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR GOVERNMENT.




Cher

This will have consequences for generations.

I say, we should pull out the troops. If we pay all the money, we would fall in severe debt. Even though we are there now. We would get nowhere . And if that happens or if we are successful, what are we getting out of it? Iraq won't change their way to democracy. If so, Iraq would fall in a major crisis due to Iraqis not agreeing with democratic views . But if there are some that want democracy, there will be a civil war in Iraq. Then we would have to get involved again. So what are we getting out of this?

Congress is going over here disaster relief package with a fine tooth comb. Trying to deny provisions for industry advertisung to rebuild the economy. Mean while they are preparing an unrequested 50 billion package for Iraq. This is just treasonable. The republicans are denying americans to probvide for our enemy. Great shades of Prescott Bush.

Part of "drowning government in a bathtub"...

Many do keep in mind that the Repugs, and their masters, are doing what Grover Norquist said so long ago... shrinking it and then drowning it in a bathtub.

Look at what is happening... on one hand you have continual tax cuts for the rich, even today. Next you have deficits larger than ever, EVER!!! Add to this, money being given to their rich masters and their corporations. Next you have incompetence in every agency. This is not just cronies appointed who should not be. This is PURPSOSFUL destruction of the role of government as a positive force in people’s lives. Make the government ineffectual and hated, and you get the people to want to abolish it--drown it!! Divide and Conquer!!

GET IT!!

They are still, to this very day, carrying their ulterior agenda--destroy this democracy so the very rich and powerful can rule the roost. This is Fascism leading to Feudalism, with the lords of the land living in their gated communities with their private security exploiting and destroying every one else.

Any wonders that bloody revolutions happen? To take care of this, however, I suspect they are planning, or hoping, for a mass die off of the rabble... whether by some "plague', oil/energy shortages, war, war, war, or whatever!

What a Nation of suckers! Yet, with the continual destruction of our educational systems over the last 30 years, even this is planned.

Everyday the Iraqi war goes on, Halliburton, Bushes make $$billions. Withdraw troops now or later, torture, the debates goes on and on, the gang in the White House makes $$billions. Even if impeached after '06, they will be crying all the way to the bank with U.S. tax money.

Or will it be another servile vote for war?