Congress Gives Iraq War Profiteers Another Hundred Billion

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/7684

Congress Gives Iraq War Profiteers Another Hundred Billion
by Evelyn Pringle | May 25 2007


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As citizens, we have no control over our own government. Never in my 57 years on this earth have I been so ashamed to be an American knowing that every day that the war continues we are knowingly allowing our soldiers and innocent Iraqis to be killed or injured with absolutely no justification, other than because politicians believe it will be beneficial to their careers to allow Bush's failed war policies to continue.

While political commentators discuss voter odds, myself and probably most Americans are sitting at home unable to watch the news without breaking down crying as the latest pictures flash on the screen showing the happy faces of the young soldiers who are now dead, knowing full well that the next night there will be more pictures of dead soldiers because the politicians have made it clear that the citizens paying their salaries have no right to demand that their elected officials put an end to the killing in Iraq.

It would be interesting to take a poll to see how often each politician even looks at the smiling faces of the dead soldiers and the second question in the poll should be, for those who claim that they do look at these faces every day and still vote to give Bush more funding, how many had to use drugs or alcohol to get to sleep during the 7 days following the vote.

For this poll, a high number of drugs and alcohol users would be viewed as positive because the reason for the question is to determine how many politicians still have the capacity to feel guilt.

Congress needs to get one thing straight, the war funding is not about politics, it is about more deaths and injuries every single day that ticks off the calendar all because Bush took this country into a senseless war based on lies. Every single day matters to the soldiers and their families, and to those of us who feel extremely guilty about not being able to find a away to get them out of Bush's war.

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[Solly Mack]

1. k/r

[OneBlueSky]

2. looks like Halliburton is going to have a VERY profitable year . . .

Cheney's bonus should be a doozy . . .

[Bandit]

3. For only four months then at least another hundred billion to get through the year

How many hundreds of billions off-budget money will be heisted? No one still has any idea what happened to the billions and billions of bundled hundred dollar bills that were loaded on four huge cargo jets and sent off to never never land. Largest cash money heist in the history of the USA and no one is even blinking over it...God what a country of morons we have become..

[Blackhatjack]

4. Dems Missed the Opportunity to Frame This Funding As Supporting the War Profiteers...

There is such a disconnect between the 'funding of the troops' and where the money will actually go.

The war profiteers will get the money, and the troops will struggle on with less than the equipment and support they deserve.

Democrats should have made this clear and stood up to the President.