House OKs $33B For Troop Surge In Afghanistan

[babsbunny]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128807704

July 27, 2010

The House on Tuesday sent President Barack Obama a major war-funding increase of $33 billion to pay for his troop surge in Afghanistan, unmoved by the leaking of classified documents that portray a military effort struggling between 2004 and 2009 against a strengthening insurgency.

The House voted 308-114 to approve the spending boost for the additional 30,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Other non-war provisions brought the total bill to nearly $59 billion.

From Obama on down, the disclosure of the documents was condemned by administration officials and military leaders on Tuesday, but the material failed to stir new anti-war sentiment. The bad news for the White House: A pervasive weariness with the war was still there — and possibly growing.

[Subdivisions]

1. Yay!

They saved 100,000 jobs!

[Oregone]

2. America! Fuck Yeah

[Cant trust em]

3. Cant Trust Em OKs $15 for a couple of beers.

I don't think I can drink my way out of this war, but here's to trying.

[Purveyor]

4. $33 billion, eh? Just about as much as it took to extend jobless benefits... n/t

[frylock]

5. fucking cowards..

this is what i voted for? this?! fml.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. where oh where are my deficit hawks?

where oh where can they be?
33 billion to kill overseas
but those 99ers get cheesed.

[Starry Messenger]

7. Do they have to compete for it, like the public schools?

I think they should have to write "war reform" applications and fire all of the "failing" people to be eligible for funding.

[Leopolds Ghost]

11. Let Blackwater and the US MIL submit competing proposals for Afghan vs. Iraq?

And declare there to be a limited pot of money and only one winning progam, the loser has to find other sources for funding due to recession? And make it a cost-benefit analysis, factoring in potential profits from the oil we're guarding and black market CIA drug transactions?

[Starry Messenger]

13. Hey, there you go.

We could call it "Race To The Victory". Sound catchy?

[doc03]

8. Is it paid for? n/t

[ixion]

9. Gee, just like the Bush days

some things never 'change' I guess. :(

[Leopolds Ghost]

10. Funding slashed for transit, schools, public housing, "stuff w/ no cost benefit" "due to recession"

If it doesn't meet cap rates (benefit high-income taxpayers and encourage them to locate in a jurisdiction) then it shouldn't be funded.

[IndianaGreen]

12. More dead, wounded, and war crimes!

The Trifecta!

[Baclava]

14. Save the poppy!

[RufusTFirefly]

15. U-S-A! U-S-A!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

16. Wil part of it go for a pretty memorial for the dead who died for political PR?

Something with a timeless message engraved on it like "Thanks, Suckers".

[midnight]

17. No wonder our Govt. has to get out of educating our children,

and put that job into the hand of the private sector, they need the money for killing.