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Thursday, August 30, 2007

$50, 000, 000, 000.00
Posted by D.R. Scott | 6:11 AM

Yahoo! News:
Bush to request $50 billion more for Iraq war: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush is preparing to ask Congress for as much as $50 billion in additional funding for the war in Iraq, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a White House official.

The request signals increasing White House confidence that it can fend off mounting congressional pressure to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, the Post reported.

The additional funds would come on top of about $460 billion in the fiscal 2008 defense budget and $147 billion in a pending supplemental bill to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Post said.
Reality: Fifty billion dollars. Think about how many schools could be built with that money. Hospitals. Museums. Libraries. We could send every child in the United States to college. Rebuild the railroads. Finance national health care.

Bullshit: Fuck that. We're Americans. We ain't gonna quit like we did in 'Nam.

Reality: Here. This is yours.

Bullshit: Huh? What's this?

Reality: The bill.

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