[Vision2020] Bush Wants More for Wars

[Art Deco]

How wonderful of Bush!

We send women and men to fight a war for which the reasons  are most charitably described as dubious; we did not provide many of them with adequate body armor on the grounds that it was in short supply (yet those not provided were able to buy it with their own funds), we ask these people to serve their country, exposing them to many different kinds of harm and death; and now we do not want to spend the money to care for the harms suffered by them at our behest.  Such patriotic care for our fellow citizens makes me want to recite the Pledge every five minutes!

Has there ever been a president with a bigger heart or a clearer vision?

W.

[To the dimbulbs:  Irony abounds above.]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Tom Hansen 
To: Moscow Vision 2020 
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 6:39 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] Bush Wants More for Wars


>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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