Gates: Wars will cost $170 billion next year. Maybe.

Wake up AMERICA!!!!

Both the defense secretary and Joint Chiefs chairman, Admiral Mike Mullen, said it was too difficult at this point to determine just how much money will be needed without knowing how many U.S. troops will be in Iraq beyond July.

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Ooh. This is really tough! Need a whole team of Harvard MBAs to work through this. Never in the history of budgeting has someone tried to budget for things that were not entirely predictable.

Try this, deceitful, traitorous, cowardly pigs: Seek an appropriation that assumes the worst, and then don't spend it if things turn out better than assumed. That way the whole country -- not just you criminals who are half out the door anyway -- will be able to adequately assess its financial needs.

Any of you Bush Apologistas have a better idea? How 'bout a fresca?

So far, $690 billion. $70 billion more from Georgie, plus another $100 billion from Gates.

According to my Chicago Public Schools math education, that totals $860 billion for this war.

Then throw in John McCain as President, and pretty soon you are at $1 TRILLION!!!

Like a great man once said, "a hundred billion here, a hundred billion there and pretty soon you are talking real money".

Nothing clarifies the mind like the night before a hanging. We have both fists into this tar-baby and leaving Iraq or the Middle-East is not an option and never was. Unless someone has a formula for safely burning radioactive oil we are stuck. Iraq was a mistake and it was poorly planned, poorly executed and miserably managed. Time to change, but not with a pull-out. That country belongs to us and it is time we made the point.

"A billion here, a billion there. Pretty soon you are talking about real money."
The initmitable Everett Dirkson

"SECRETARY GATES SPEAKS"

JIM NUSSLE IS ON CRACK AMERICA.

170 BILLION EMERGENCY SPENDING EVERY SIX MONTHS EQUATES TO THE AMERICAN DOLLAR BEING WORTH ABOUT
$.33 CENTS TO THE DOLLAR.

THAT SHOULD BREAK AMERICAS MIDDLE CLASS FOR THE NEXT 60 YEARS.

THAT MEANS THE GOP WILL BE BACK BABY. WE WILL BE BACK BABY AND HALLIBURTON WILL BE IN DUBAI AND NONE OF YOU GEORGE BUSH, DICK CHENEY HATERS OUT THERE CAN DO ANYTHING ABOUT OUR "PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS IN AMERICA"

THANK YOU JOHN, THANK YOU MITT, THANK YOU MR. BOEHNER.

THANK YOU SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER OF NATO FOR BEING DISSED AND NOT COMPLAINING. THANK YOU, AFGAN POPPY IS UP!

I thought war was supposed to be good for the economy?

I guess not.

Iraq was a mistake and it was poorly planned, poorly executed and miserably managed. Time to change, but not with a pull-out. That country belongs to us and it is time we made the point.

Posted by: Charles J. Budde | February 6, 2008 3:43 PM

That country (Iraq) does not belong to us, it never has and it never will.

The Republican Party is going to pay dearly for this in 08 whether they want to acknowledge it or not.

TeamBacteriaClusterBush is trying to destroy us, right? What else can it be?

They are spending on these wars like something from beyond the drunken sailor analogy. They are spending like a drunken crack w#o&e with a stolen Visa card?

C.Morris,

Crack wh$$res are much more disciplined when it comes to spending.

Are we Nation Building with hard earned US tax dollars?

I wouldn't worry too much. . .in '09, unless it's a Republican President in '09. Then, that budget is problably actually too low.

Raver,
More like with easily borrowed Chinese $$$.

Thats $472 million a day.

"The Republican Party is going to pay dearly for this in 08 whether they want to acknowledge it or not."

Let's put more Dems in congress. They've done a wonderful job with the economy during the past 14 months.

The war, the sub-prime mess. They are kicking a$$.

How much of that 860 billion dollars was appropriated by the Democratically controlled congress that took power in Nov 2006?

Prisoner of Logic:

Lame effort, but very little is expected of your ilk.

If Congress had not appropriated the money (not nearly the 860bn, btw), people like you would have been the first to crow about how the Dems don't support the troops. So it's a bit incongruous for you to attack them now for appropriating Commander Murderer's blank check book.

Also, I'm pretty sure it was a certain "war resident," supported by bootlicking Republicant opportunists like McCain, that started and completely botched up this wholly unnecessary war.

"Also, I'm pretty sure it was a certain "war resident," supported by bootlicking Republicant opportunists like McCain, that started and completely botched up this wholly unnecessary war."

Keep telling yourself congress has no responsibility and no role.

They've abandoned their constitutional responsibilities to support the dumbest and worst president in history.

Or, are they enabling the President to prosecute a 'botched up' war for political reasons?

They watch troops die and do nothing to stop it.

Go Democrats, your kind of ilk,

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Any of you Bush Apologistas have a better idea? How 'bout a fresca?

Posted by: a blinkin | February 6, 2008 3:34 PM"

Blinky,
The numbers are staggering, yet we can't afford SS or national health ins?

Hey Big Oligarchy! Sometimes you have to throw a crumb to common proles.

Charles:

Thanks for the tip-in on my quote. What ever happened to the days of Republicans like Dirksen, Rockefeller, etc?? Even Barry Goldwater's family is saying he would be appalled at what has happened to the GOP the past few years.