'Like a drunk blowing his paycheck on booze, will Bush blow his $100B on Iran?'

by Jane Stillwater

...Given George W. Bush's past history of lying, diverting funds, fondness for bombing foreign countries, disrespect for Congress, stretching the US military beyond all reason, disregarding the Constitution and other inappropriate patterns of behavior, perhaps you are starting to get a bit of a clue as to what Bush's more-than-likely plans are for that 100-billion-dollar blank check that he just received from Congress....

The other day, House minority leader John Boehner begged his colleagues to give Bush, a man with the most sleazy reputation in Washington, a 100-billion-dollar carte blanche. With tears in his eyes, Boehner pleaded with Congress to give Bush this insanely large amount of money -- and to give it to him on complete faith. "I think at the top of our list is providing for the safety and security of the American people," sobbed Boehner. "That's at the top of our list." Sorry, John. Your tears were in vain. Keeping America safe is not what George Bush has in mind for that money -- and neither is supporting our troops. And apparently Congress didn't particularly have those goals in mind either. If it did, Congress would have voted to have our troops home by the Fourth of July -- if not by Father's Day!

So. Why do I think that Bush is about to hit the bar stool and drop that 100 billion on booze from a bottle labeled "Iran"? Or run out to Weapons-R-Us and foolishly squander his new 100-billion-dollar allowance on frivolous stuff like an attack on Iran? That's a no-brainer. Just look what Bush has done already with our trust -- and our treasury -- since he stole the presidential election in 2000. Is anybody in America who has seen Bush in action over the last seven years still naive enough to think that he is actually planning to use this new-found 100 billion dollars to "support the troops" in Iraq and/or "keep America safe" here at home? And not on a new "GI Joe in Iran" doll?

Can anybody in America still be that naive? Face it, guys. Iraq was last year's toy. Bush is no longer interested in playing with last year's toy -- or in spending any money on repairing it either. Bush wants to buy a NEW toy this year. And Congress has just handed Bush the money to pay for his new toy -- with no strings attached.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_jane_sti_070528_like_a_drunk_blowing.htm

It'll take much more than that, I'm afraid.

That's about all he could do. Forget about troops.

Aerial bombardment. Cluster bombs. Mining harbors.

You know, the things that make America more beloved.

Gee, more enemies. Great. Can't wait.

But they don't hate us 'cuz we do bad things . . . they hate us for our FREEDOMS!

and a preemptive strike, then logistics would have to take over and everything would go to shit from that point. We just don't have the people.

Of course the contractors would weigh in, who knows how many 'private contractors' will join into the ground war. a few hundred thousand would be overwhelming. 100 billion buys a lot of loyalty, just hope the money doesn't runs out. :sarcasm:

Actually, I wonder how much of that 100B was the work of Deadeye Dick and his 13 hour actions to push for war with Iran?

Money money.

...and will be back to the feeding trough before the summer is half over. His rational...the surge is working so lets put even more money behind it. The surge is completely failing but the reThugs will say its working, so the public will believe shrub and his party. There is no accountability, so he'll just lie

Does that reach a record!?! How much can 50 billion buy in loyalty from mercenaries? Headcount wise? how about 100 million? Letse, hmm, 100k per merc, 1000. 100 billion for 100k per merc, a million man merc army.

Not that it will be that many, but I bet a lot went to prepare 'contractors'.

Paging Boba Fett.