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[Atlantic Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times] Although some of the factors behind the rapid increase in DOD funding are known the growing intensity of operations, additional force protection gear and equipment, substantial upgrades of equipment, converting units to modular configurations, and new funding to train and equip Iraqi security forces these elements fail to justify the increase, the CRS said.
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[Fold / Spindle / Mutilate 2.0] The Iraq war, for $100 month: Indeed, the Bush administration request for 2008 was $196-billion for both wars, with $159-billion going to Iraq, according to a summary by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. A recent Census Bureau report said there were 116-million households.
[US Air Force ROTC] Fresh Ideas For A Toxic Site: Seen through a Syrian lens, ”unknown Americans are provoking civil war in Iraq. Travel Bag. Local students receive scholarships. (Molon Labe/46835) - On that note, what do we do if, when you delete an FM, that person then goes. ...
[Benzworld.org - Mercedes Benz Discussion Forum] Election power of the Israel lobby: Eric Cantor, the house of representatives Republican deputy chief whip, reportedly went further and was quoted as as saying: "Unfortunately, Jim Moran has made it a habit now to lash out to the American-Jewish community.
[WhistleblowerSupporter] Another Failure in Congressional Oversight...: Moreover, the most recent CRS report related to the cost of Iraq and Afghanistan operations dated July 16, said that while the Pentagon has made slight improvements in "in showing how previously appropriated funds have been allocated among the three operations - Iraq, Afghanistan and other counter-terror operations and enhanced security - [the Pentagon's latest funding request] does not cover over $30 billion for classified programs and other funds for repair or replacement of war-worn equipment still to be obligated."
[K4 Comics] Mealey's Asbestos Litigation 101 Conference, July 22-23, 2004 ...: Menendez Assails Bush on Iraq. Phishing - The New Game In Town Posted By : Ryan Smith. This Is The End? Garth Brooks Joins Trisha Yearwoods CRS Showcase. Centertown man sustains moderate injuries in Friday wreck ...
[Econbrowser] Iraq update: Can you imagine what economists and others would be saying if we spent $10 billion a month on a domestic social program that's worked as "well" as our adventure in Iraq? Especially with no end to the conflict/ spending in sight and the financial and human investment leading to results that are level at best (this is from the people paid to say things are going well) and deteriorating drastically at worst?
[The Huffington Post | Full Blog Feed] Rep. John Murtha: The Cost of the War Approaches Half a Trillion: By the end of the next fiscal year, one half a trillion dollars will be appropriated for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, with a great majority of the funding attributed to the war in Iraq. From fiscal year '04 until FY06 the cost of .
[Sherrod Brown for US Senate] Ad Watch: DeWines Intel Career Defined By Failed Oversight: DeWine voted to go to war with Iraq based on nonexistent weapons of mass destruction and voted against investigating the faulty intelligence that led us there. Today, he revealed that he shelved a new intelligence report in which 16 of the Bush administration's intelligence agencies agreed that the Bush Iraq policy was creating a rallying point for global jihadists, and dismissed it when he read it yesterday.
[Just Foreign Policy News] Just Foreign Policy News, April 9, 2008: [Sen.] Graham and others opened the door for Petraeus and Crocker to match White House rhetoric on the ongoing threat from al-Qaeda in Iraq and the rising menace of Iran. But while Petraeus noted that the recent Iraqi government offensive in Basra against the Iranian-backed Shiite militia of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr illustrated Tehran’s malign influence, Crocker repeated something he said in September: Persian Iran is up to no good in Iraq, but its role there is limited by deep Arab Iraqi antipathy.
[TRAVLINROSE'S GYPSY JOURNAL] NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE ACTUAL IRAQ WAR FINANCIAL COSTS ARE BECAUSE ...: Moreover, the most recent CRS report related to the cost of Iraq and Afghanistan operations dated July 16, said that while the Pentagon has made slight improvements in "in showing how previously appropriated funds have been allocated among the three operations - Iraq, Afghanistan and other counter-terror operations and enhanced security - [the Pentagon's latest funding request] does not cover over $30 billion for classified programs and other funds for repair or replacement of war-worn equipment still to be obligated."
[US Air Force ROTC] Fewer kids, more moneyAs enrollments fall, budgets go up: Comment on Blog spam (blam?) by http://codeworks.gnomedia.com/. On Vox: Holidays are Good. BBC Tees. A final salute: Civil War soldier receives belated headstone in Marine on St. Croix. CRS Report to Congress: Social Security Reform ...
[Drudge Retort: Leftcoastlawyer's blog] Bush's Wars Costing $12 Billion a Month: Congress approved $99 billion in war funding in May after a protracted battle and a Bush veto of an earlier measure over Democrats' attempt to set a timeline for withdrawing US combat troops from Iraq. The report faults the Pentagon for .
[Just Foreign Policy News] Just Foreign Policy News, April 4, 2007: But such spending has been part of Iraq funding bills since the war began, sometimes inserted by the president himself, sometimes added by lawmakers with bipartisan aplomb. A few of the items may have weighed on the votes for spending bills that have now topped half a trillion dollars, but, in almost all cases over the past four years, special-interest funding provisions have been the fruits of congressional opportunism by well-placed senators or House members grabbing what they could for their constituents on the one bill that had to be passed quickly.
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