Pentagon to Request $7.5 Billion, a 50% Hike, in Fight Against ISIS

[IDemo]

Source: ABC News

The Pentagon will request $7.5 billion in next year’s budget to cover the costs of its accelerating campaign against ISIS, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said today.

Speaking before the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., Carter revealed the 50 percent increase for ISIS-related funds over its fiscal year 2016 budget.

“This will be critical as our updated coalition military campaign plan kicks in. For example, we’ve recently been hitting ISIL with so many GPS-guided smart bombs and laser-guided rockets that we’re starting to run low on the ones that we use against terrorists the most," Carter said. ISIS is also known as ISIL or the Islamic State. "So we’re investing $1.8 billion in FY 2017 to buy over 45,000 more of them.”

The budget request also will include a quadrupling of the funds to support NATO’s effort to counter Russian aggression in eastern Europe, raising the current amount of $789 million to $3.4 billion. This increase will allow for the rotation of more U.S. units in Europe, additional training, and the pre-positioning of gear.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/pentagon-request-75-billion-50-hike-fight-isis/story?id=36665610

[ErisDiscordia]

1. Tell them to hold a bake sale

[Plucketeer]

2. Our mercenary business is thriving

The MIC must be beside themselves with glee! ->

[Roy Rolling]

3. Finally!

If we just spend another $7.5 billion more I will finally be safe and can sleep at night.

What could possibly go wrong?

[Wolf Frankula]

4. How Much Are they Asking to Support ISIS

You know, the Moderates in Syria?

Wolf

[msongs]

5. the can close all the officers' clubs, nco clubs, sell off the golf courses. that will help nt

[24601]

24. So instead, you'll pay the average soldier what he/she deserves? OK, but it will be far more

expensive that way.

[jmowreader]

27. It'll do nothing of the sort

The military has two "funding cites." Appropriated funds pay for operations, and Congress allocates those. Nonappropriated funds pay for Morale, Welfare and Recreation activities like officers clubs, NCO clubs and golf courses. Those activities charge their users and they're required to pay their own way.

[TipTok]

31. You shush with your facts...

You are ruining a good rant...

[jmowreader]

32. Oh, I know, but it's got to be said

[maxsolomon]

6. how much for a time machine to go back to 2003?

and put the Sunni terror Genie back in the bottle?

[TubbersUK]

7. Wouldn't it be cheaper,

and more effective, to stop Turkey buying/brokering ISIS oil ?

Not to mention the benefits of discouraging gulf state support for ISIS.

[Dustlawyer]

8. The drool from the MIC just flooded the country.

We need to tell them no new money until a complete audit of the military's budget! There is so much fraud, waste and abuse we could cut the budget in half and still do everything they want to do except steal.

[avaistheone1]

9. Ridiculous.

Like they can't find the money somewhere else in their budget.

So much of our defense money goes down a black hole...it's sickening.

[Scalded Nun]

10. This is absurd...and obscene

This shit just never stops, and no one will say no. They are already over-funded and they waste more than all other agencies combined. My opinion, mind you on the 'all other agencies' part. No one tracks their spending, they have no accountability, and when fraud/waste is discovered they either shut the door to minimize public exposure or they shoot the messenger, or both.

At a time when we are pulling out the rug from every vulnerable person in this country, they want (and get) more, more, more.

This is an orgy of spending and it is a travesty.

[elljay]

11. This is a ploy to influence the election

They're trying to manipulate the Democratic candidates into saying they oppose the increase, so the Republicans can argue that the Dems are anti-military. If I were Obama, this is when I would invite Ash Carter to spend more time with his family.

[bonniebgood]

12. 7.5 BILLION is needed in Flint MI to fight the GOP damage nt

[mwrguy]

13. Not one penny for war in Syria

[ancianita]

14. The defense industry is relentless.

[Hestia]

15. This is why we can't have nice things...

[nyabingi]

16. Yes, let's keep pouring many more billions

into the non-existent war against ISIS, a group of religious mercenaries whom we've been hoping will carry out our desire for regime change in Syria (a desire which we've never given up on).

We've been supposedly bombing ISIS for years and they've only expanded (until the Russians REALLY started bombing them). We were "bombing" them when they took over Ramadi, Raqqi and other major areas of Iraq and Syria, yet Carter is saying the American bomb makers need more of our money because we haven't been bombing them good enough yet. Really? This is just more welfare for the weapons manufacturers.

Instead of calling me "bat-guano crazy", a loony conspiracy theorist and accusing me of regurgitating Alex Jones' craziness, open your f-cking eyes and look at what's really going on in the Middle East right now. If you disagree with my take on this situation, don't be a coward, confront me and tell me why you think I'm "bat-guano crazy", and give me a chance to tell you you're wrong. We'll see who's crazy then.

I'd be more than happy to explain things for those true-blue liberal interventionists in the house who think more military expenditures, continuing the "war on terror", regime change, etc. are good things.

[liberal_at_heart]

17. and yet we can't afford single payer health care or tuition free college.

[valerief]

30. Cuz...NO MONEY.

Why the fuck do these poor Republicans keep voting for these MIC-loving assholes?

[lovuian]

18. This military industrial complex is unsustainable

End of story

[Thor_MN]

19. Tell them they can have the money that went missing during the Shrub era.

[Odin2005]

20. YAY, let's waste money on more imperialist wars!

ISIS would not exist were it not for the US fucking with the region in the first place.

[valerief]

21. There's always more money for war profiteers, never more money for citizens. nt

[smirkymonkey]

22. +1000

[ozone_man]

23. More cost effective to aim at Saudia Arabia and Turkey.

And tell them to stop funding ISIS.

[Turbineguy]

25. Hmmm..... Let's see

IS pays its fighters $400 per month.... there's 30,000 of them, that works out to 52 years of paid leave each. Probably not much profit in it, but we could pay them not to kill people?

[kacekwl]

26. 50 PERCENT

are you fricking kidding me. MIC heads out shopping for 4th and 5th homes and a heated hangar for the new plane.

[valerief]

29. Bingo! More is never enough for these pigs. nt

[Nihil]

28. Kicking not just for the incredible nonsense of the original request ...

... but also for the sanity of so many of the responses (so far).