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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"hannicullen" |
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30 Nov 2006 06:12:57 AM |
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'War On Terror' becoming a gigantic pork-barrel program |
The Pentagon plans to "ask for at least another $127 billion" in
emergency funding for the Iraq war, military operations in Afghanistan
and anti-terrorism efforts. The expected proposal, which "could be
larger and broader than any since the Sept. 11 attacks," is again
raising concern that the "emergency requests are increasingly being
used to finance items that are not truly emergencies." Emergency
requests bypass a good deal of routine congressional oversight, and
incoming congressional leaders say they had been planning to limit the
emergency spending "in favor of the regular federal budget process,
which affords greater oversight and congressional control." The request
is expected to be larger due to new rules laid out in an Oct. 25 memo
by Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England. The memo said that military
services could extend requests beyond Iraq and Afghanistan costs to
"include a greater number of expenses more loosely tied to the actual
wars, such as new military weapons systems and training exercises," the
Los Angeles Times reports. "The England memo basically said, 'Let her
rip,'" said Winslow Wheeler, director of the Straus Military Reform
Project. "Anything goes, as long as you can put it under the pretext of
not only Iraq or Afghanistan but the global war on terror." In
September, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service complained
that "the distinction between what is war-related and what instead is
part of the Department of Defense's ongoing transformation or
modernization is less clear."
http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061126/NEWS/611260428/1002/NEWS01
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| User: "hopeful" |
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| Title: Re: 'War On Terror' becoming a gigantic pork-barrel program |
30 Nov 2006 07:38:18 AM |
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"hannicullen" <hannicullen@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1164888777.709215.145340@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com...
The Pentagon plans to "ask for at least another $127 billion" in
emergency funding for the Iraq war, military operations in Afghanistan
and anti-terrorism efforts.
Very old news and very incomplete. The day after the President stood on top
of the rubble of the Trade Centers he and his people began the greatest and
most dishonest give away this country has ever seen. It does not stop at
the actual military. Look into all the "security" companies offering up
mercenaries to the meat grinder. Look into all the companies selling the
super secret software and hardware to the intelligence groups, especially
from Israel. Check out how much a guy gets serving hamburgers to our
soldiers and compare that to what the soldier makes. Bush should be
ashamed for what he has done. Bush invaded Iraq to remove a threat
against Israel, nothing more nothing less.
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| User: "hannicullen" |
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| Title: 'War On Terror' becoming a gigantic pork-barrel program |
02 Dec 2006 08:44:45 AM |
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hopeful wrote:
Very old news and very incomplete. The day after the President stood on top
of the rubble of the Trade Centers he and his people began the greatest and
most dishonest give away this country has ever seen.
It may be old news to us, but there are millions of people across
America that are just now removing the blinders that they have worn
since September 11, and they are seeing all this information for the
first time. They have been fed a steady diet of jingoistic, FOX News
propaganda and I think it's important to keep this information visible
for them to see.
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