[Vision2020] Bush Wants More for Wars

[Tom Hansen]

>From today's (February 3, 2006) Spokesman Review -

 

President Bush has already removed $12 billion from the Department of
Education budget and will soon consider increasing the cost to veterans for
their own health care to go into effect in fiscal year 2007.

 

Meanwhile . . . .

 

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Bush wants more for wars 

President asks for $120 billion

 

February 3, 2006

 

The Bush administration said Thursday it will ask Congress for $120 billion
more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and $18 billion more this year for
hurricane relief. If approved by Congress, the war money would push spending
related to the wars toward a half-trillion dollars.

 

Details of the requests are not final, but the 2007 budget proposal that
President Bush will submit next week will reflect the totals for planning
purposes. The president also will ask Congress to devote an additional $2.3
billion this year for prepare for a bird flu epidemic.

 

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that $320 billion has been
spent on Iraq and Afghanistan since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, including
$50 billion that Congress sent Bush in December.

 

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Take care, Moscow.

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

 

"Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps." 


-Emo Philips

 

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