GOP Don't Support the Troops - Another SillyBooBoo Lie

The White House confirmed Wednesday that its new budget next month will not request a full year’s funding for the war in Iraq, leaving the next president and Congress to confront major cost questions soon after taking office in 2009.

The decision reverses the administration’s stance of just a year ago, when President Bush’s budget made a point of spelling out in advance what he thought the costs would be for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for 2008. By comparison, the new budget, to be unveiled Feb. 4, requests only incremental “bridge” funding into 2009 and won’t sustain the military through the full length of the fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, 2009.

Bush budget won't fully fund Iraq war - David Rogers - Politico.com

Well you guys tend to forget yesterday.

This is one Christmas gift U.S. taxpayers don't need. Construction of a $30 million dining facility at a U.S. base in Iraq is scheduled to be completed Dec. 25. But the decision to build it was based on bad planning and botched paperwork.

The project is too far along to stop, making the mess hall a future monument to the waste and inefficiency plaguing the war effort, according to an independent panel investigating contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In its first report to Congress, the Wartime Contracting Commission presents a bleak assessment of how tens of billions of dollars have been spent since 2001. The 111-page report, obtained by The Associated Press, documents poor management, weak oversight, and a failure to learn from past mistakes as recurring themes in wartime contracting.

The report is scheduled to be made public Wednesday at a hearing held by the House Oversight and Government Reform's national security subcommittee.

U.S. reliance on contractors has grown to "unprecedented proportions," says the bipartisan commission, established by Congress last year. More than 240,000 private sector employees are supporting military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thousands more work for the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development.

But the government has no central data base of who all these contractors are, what services they provide, and how much they're paid. The Pentagon has failed to provide enough trained staff to watch over them, creating conditions for waste and corruption, the commission says.


APNewsBreak: Major problems found in war spending - Yahoo! News


We watched billions or trillions disappear when we gave Bush all his "supplimental" war funds.

So now the GOP have the balls to not fund the troops because the bill has some pork in it? At least if that money is pissed away, it'll be pissed away in America.

You guys seem to forget that all the money stolen in Iraq will never come back. Not in taxes, not in trickle down, not anyway.

from your post, dumbo

"Democrats have included a $5 billion increase for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help aid nations affected by the global financial crisis."

tell me again how that money's gonna "be pissed away in america."?

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 ? With its rising budget deficit and ballooning trade imbalance, the United States is running up a foreign debt of such record-breaking proportions that it threatens the financial stability of the global economy, according to a report released Wednesday by the International Monetary Fund.
I.M.F. Says U.S. Debts Threaten World Economy - The New York Times

The U.S. Congress stripped the $18 billion Clinton Administration request for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from an emergency spending bill on April 23, marking the first major legislative defeat since Congress began considering the funding last year. Called a "supplemental" spending bill, the legislation would have provided some $18 billion in new funding for the IMF, something the Clinton Administration has called a "high priority" for this legislative session.
The U.S. reaction to funding the IMF is important because much of the IMF's future is riding on America's reaction to this funding issue. For example, the IMF is not just requesting $18 billion from the U.S., but is asking for a 45 percent increase in donations from all 182 members of the IMF. Many countries are watching the U.S. to see how much the IMF's largest donor is dedicated to the 50 year old institution. Some IMF watchers already are claiming that if the U.S. votes down the funding request, other countries will follow suit - leading eventually to diminishing IMF influence and membership.

The U.S. Senate recently passed a supplemental spending bill that includes funding for the U.S. peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and the Middle East, disaster relief for storm victims here in the U.S., and the IMF. However, the House broke these funding requests into two separate supplemental bills. The first including funding for Bosnia, the Middle East, and disaster relief. The second includes funding for the IMF and $500 million to help pay U.S. arrears to the United Nations (U.N.). In order for any bill to reach the President for signature, it must pass both houses of Congress in identical form (any differences are worked out in a conference committee between House and Senate members, before returning to the floor for final passage in both houses).

Theres the issue in bold, this is not an issue of not supporting the troops as I'm sure this was the original intent of the people in the Senate Committie who wished to score some points at the expense of the military hoped for. In fact congress has passed legislation for the IMF before as seperate issues and I'm sure it would have passed this time. It's rather "two faced" to say to the troops here is less money that we gave you last year , and oh by the way we are also using this bill to stuff in a bunch of pet projects at your expense , hope you don't mind.

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Bobo you make me laugh........and the Dems dont have you by your balls.........

SeaBoob, as entertaining as you can be, at some point I get concerned when I see you purposely humiliating yourself, as you have with this thread. Please consider stopping by your local mental health agency.

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One man's pork is another man's pork chop.

Yea, they always have an excuse why they vote against the troops. Only a fool would believe them. McCain & the GOP voted against the troops 80% and Obama/Webb/The Dems voted for the troops 80% of the time.

Even when McCain voted against the vets last year, Bush went on tv and gave him credit. That should be all the proof you need that they are scandalous liars and you are a sucker.

PS. I told you George Bush broke the military. Do you know how they are holding it together? We now have 100,000 soldiers in the military who have psychological or criminal problems. I heard that on tv last night. It was a show about don't ask don't tell. So we have qualified gay people who can speak arabic that can't join because of you homophobes but we can let criminals and crazies in?

It was only 8000 in 2006. What happened? Remember you were talking shit about how the army wasn't broken? Are you sure you served? Because you seem to have a very ignorant view of the military and how things are going. Everytime I mention a problem, you deny it. Maybe you're one of those phony soldiers Rush was talking about.

http://www.parapundit.com/archives/004074.html

You got something that backs up your position that the GOP does support the troops? Voting records, anything? Anything you find will be bullshit/spin/lies. Just like McCain LIED when he said he got a good grade from veteran groups.

McCain's record against the troops

John McCain's record of voting AGAINST our troops, page 1

OpenSecrets | Troops Deployed Abroad Give 6:1 to Obama - Capital Eye

Even the real troops understand this. Only retired/retarded soldiers who are brainwashed argue with me. Are you another phony soldier?

John McCain voted against funding the troops because of . . . a timeline in it to draw down American troops."

PolitiFact | Statements on Iraq

Sen. McCain was already turning his sights to Iraq just days after 9/11, and he became a leading supporter of an invasion and occupation of (Iraq)."

True

SeaBoob ............. did you even read the words of mine which you quoted?

My position is that your are a raving idiot and you just proved it by quoting one thing and then ranting about something else. Your nuts, off the hook, out of control, ............... lol

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By the way SeaBoob, since when does John McCain make up the entire GOP?

Whew ............. go back to sleep!

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Off the hook is a good thing.

If you had a link that proved me wrong, you would have posted it. Now get back to work. That dick isn't going to suck itself.

I need a link to prove that McCain doesn't make up the GOP?

Hmmm ............ as for getting back to work, thank you, at least I can not only find mine, but reach it.

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It's Simple .......... It's Time for Obama to Leave the White House!

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