President Obama breaks emergency war spending pledge. "Last planned war supplemental" not the last.

[Karmadillo]

Maybe this was an unplanned supplemental?

http://caivn.org/article/2010/05/24/president-obama-breaks-emergency-war-spending-pledge

Following in the footsteps of George W. Bush, President Obama has requested another $33 billion of "emergency", off-budget spending on the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars.

As a presidential candidate, Obama often criticized President Bush's chronic use of supplemental war spending bills, which added to the national debt. In February 2009, President Obama told Congress, "For seven years, we have been a nation at war. We will no longer hide its price." In April 2009, Obama requested tens of billions more in supplemental funding for the wars, but wrote House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, "This is the last planned war supplemental."

Republicans and Democrats are haggling over how to pay for the off-budget war spending increase, but the bill is likely to pass as US troops continue operations in both war theaters.

Much like Obama's failed promise to shut down Guantanamo Bay in one year, his pledge to end supplemental war spending bills, which further exacerbate the budget deficit and national debt, has been broken.

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[mynameiswhat]

1. More money for an unnecessary war.

that money could be helping the unemployed!

[lib2DaBone]

2. More than $33 Billion.. they are asking for $60 Billion....

This will pass with ease. Republicans LOVE war and suffering. Dont know how they got those funds in there for flood relief and Haiti?
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A year after President Obama pledged to end the practice of funding the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq with "emergency" spending bills, the Senate is taking up a $60 billion request that would do exactly that.

But while Congress provided $130 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan at the end of last year as part of the traditional budget process, Obama this year came back to Capitol Hill for the additional $33 billion -- mostly to cover the cost of sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.

But the aide said pending the consideration of the Coburn amendment, "the process for the supplemental could move relatively expeditiously."


The bill includes money for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, aid for Haiti earthquake relief and money for flood relief in Rhode Island and Tennessee.

[madrchsod]

3. that`s ok--we have plenty of blood and money to feed the machine.

we must not fail in our duty to make the world safe for democracy

[Karmadillo]

4. I can remember the days when we used to rail against the Bush administration for this sort of thing.

Now we see more clearly the complexities of power. It's a grey world out there. $33 billion for war or $33 billion for humanitarian purposes? It's a hard call. We must trust our leaders and hope for the best.

[saracat]

5. Yeah, its so much different if the pol has a "D" after their name!

:sarcasm:

[Karmadillo]

6. Kick

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