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.
Is the plan to bankrupt America? How does that benefit anybody? We are heading for the rocks and if somebody doesn't take the wheel we are truly fucked!
Just when I think that we have hit the bottom, the White House discovers a new version of low.
Well I refuse to leave this legacy to my children we have got to get organized and do something now!
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100 Billion- why don't they ask the Oil companies to donate some of their record breaking profits ?
ReplyDeleteWe are broke- 6 billion a month already..we are going to starve and lose every....
WHEN is the congress going to say NO