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he should leave them there for the next 19 months with no monetary aid? why do you hate the troops?
WASHINGTON – Congressional aides say President Barack Obama is seeking $83.4 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan into the fall.
Once approved by Congress, the money would bring the total amount for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan since Sept. 11, 2001 to almost $1 trillion.
Budget office spokesman Tom Gavin says the White House will send an official request to Congress this afternoon.
Obama was a harsh critic of the Iraq war as a candidate. He opposed a war funding bill in 2007, when former President George W. Bush increased the tempo of military operations.
The upcoming request will include $75.5 billion for the military and more than $7 billion in foreign aid.
Obama announced plans in February to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq on a 19-month timetable.
Hmmmmmm???? Guess Obama is a war monger now, lol.
he should leave them there for the next 19 months with no monetary aid? why do you hate the troops?
Ending the bad war and bringing focus back to the good war.
Wow!! Funding the war!!? Damn him!!
Not hating the troops. I have 2 cousins over there. I was just pointing out a contradiction of how Obama could vote AGAINST funding while Bush was president, and now he is for funding. Just thought that was interesting contradiction on his part. Nothing more.
That's the difference between a protest vote from a junior senator and a budget proposal from a sitting president.
or he could just pull the troops right now, and not gradually. That would be earn the OP's respect I'm sure.
At the risk of sounding like a fiscal dinosaur, the supplemental nature of the appropriation is inappropriate.
IMO it's a bad idea to keep wars *conceived of as being long*, off the books.
Funding war exclusively through the supplemental process was a GWB novelty; now I guess it is a precedent.
Continuity you can believe in.
I think the difference is the war spending is now being included in spending projections, etc.At the risk of sounding like a fiscal dinosaur, the supplemental nature of the appropriation is inappropriate.
IMO it's a bad idea to keep wars *conceived of as being long*, off the books.
Funding war exclusively through the supplemental process was a GWB novelty; now I guess it is a precedent.
difference to you he is not bush and he is a dem
I would have been happy with Bush if he had opposed his own war as a junior senator.
I did not see that in the reporting today, but my reading was not exhaustive. Was it announced previously?
That's my understanding. I didn't read anything about planning to change the appropriations process. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the change was including all the numbers.
Why do it as a supplemental if the budget projections take it into account? Or does the supplemental represent unanticipated costs? Hard to reckon, given the projected outlay for 2009 is $150 billion.
God, this ing bailout makes war seem cheap. It wouldn't have seemed cheap to me a year ago.
I don't care whether or not it's good if it's not winnable. Is it?Ending the bad war and bringing focus back to the good war.
Has winning in Afghanistan even been defined yet? I see the same strategic opacity as Iraq. How will we know if we've won?
Obama repeatedly voted to fund the war in Iraq........It was a sore point between Hilary and he during the primaries Hilary pointed out that Obama had voted to fund the war in Iraq as many times as she had, and yet tried to say he didn't. The only senator to run for president who never voted to fund the war in Iraq was Ron Paul, but of course he's crazy.
I couldn't tell you what the written goal is. As far as fighting terraists, treating Afghanistan and the Pakistan frontier as one operational theater is a move in the right direction.
He was funding the troops.
the obamanations found themselves a "good war"Ending the bad war and bringing focus back to the good war.
It was always the good war compared to Iraq. You were just too stupid to notice.
It was always the good war compared to Iraq. You were just too stupid to notice.
Oh my god you called me ..stupid..I'm withering
Hm... might want to think up a better comeback next time.
yeah something really intelligent like calling people who don't share your view...stupid
I never really saw any significant opposition to military action in Afghanistan.
If micca can direct us to evidence of it, I will retract my characterization in this particular case. Otherwise, it was a pretty stupid thing for him to say.
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