What are they doing with 87 billion? - Democratic Underground

spinbaby

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Wed Sep-17-03 08:02 AM
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What are they doing with 87 billion?

These numbers caught my eye in this week's Time magazine:

$87 billion Amount President Bush has requested next year for military and rebuilding operations in Iraq and Afghanistan

$47.6 billion Amount, adjusted for inflation, spent by the Marshall Plan in 1949 (its peak year) to rebuild Europe after World War II

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030922-485747,00.html

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Brucey

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Wed Sep-17-03 08:08 AM
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1. Three fourths of Chimpy's request is for

military, not for rebuilding. "We are not an occupying force," they say. What are we? Police? Assassins?

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indepat

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Wed Sep-17-03 08:32 AM
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3. Does that mean one-fourth (almost $22B) is for Halliburton et

al?

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larryepke

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Wed Sep-17-03 08:10 AM
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2. Of course...

most of the $87 billion is for military use. The Marshall Plan was (I think) strictly for aid and reconstruction.

And the Marshall Plan money didn't have to go through Halliburton first! :argh:

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