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But How Will We Pay For It?
Balloon Juice —
Will be interesting to see if Obama folds on this:
The nation’s top military officer said Wednesday that he expected the Pentagon to ask Congress in the next few months for emergency financing to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, even though President Obama has pledged to end the Bush administration practice of paying for the conflicts with so-called supplemental funds that are outside the normal Defense Department budget.
The financing would be on top of the $130 billion that Congress authorized for the wars just last ...
More War Money, More War Problems
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... did not say how much additional money would be needed, but one figure in circulation within the Pentagon and among outside defense budget analysts is $50 billion.
Representative John Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat who is chairman of the House appropriations defense subcommittee, cited $40 billion last week as a hypothetical amount for the supplemental financing request. The number represented a standard calculation of $1 billion for every 1,000 troops deployed.
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Tomgram: Jamail and Lazare, Who Will Be Sent to Afghanistan?
TomDispatch —
... At the same time, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Mike Mullen, has just made it clear that the Pentagon will once again request supplemental war-fighting funds sometime next year, over and above the $130 billion Congress appropriated only a month ago in the Defense Department budget. These will be based, in part, on a calculation that each 1,000 new troops sent to Afghanistan must be supported by an extra billion dollars in funds. (You can do the math yourself on those ...
Who Will Be Sent to Afghanistan?
Antiwar.com Original —
... by the Bush-appointed civilian leadership of the Pentagon.) At the same time, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Adm. Mike Mullen, has just made it clear that the Pentagon will once again request supplemental war-fighting funds sometime next year, over and above the $130 billion Congress appropriated only a month ago in the Defense Department budget. These will be based, in part, on a calculation that each 1,000 new troops sent to Afghanistan must be supported by an extra billion dollars in funds. (You can do the math yourself on those ...
Cobert Conservatism & the Cost of Permanent War
Open Left - Front Page —
A few weeks back, I wrote a column looking at how the media and political establishment spends an inordinate amount of time pretending to be outraged at the cost of priorities like health care while simultaneously ignoring the ballooning cost of permanent war-making. I was met with a wave of angry email from conservatives - not at the Pentagon profligacy I referred to, but at criticism of Pentagon spending itself.
So this week, I responded with another column digging deeper into what we know about Pentagon spending. A preview:
- "All told, every man, woman and child in the United States will spend more than $2,700 on ...
David Sirota: Colbert Conservatism & the Cost of Permanent War
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
A few weeks back, I wrote a column looking at how the media and political establishment spends an inordinate amount of time pretending to be outraged at the cost of priorities like health care while simultaneously ignoring the ballooning cost of permanent war-making. I was met with a wave of angry email from conservatives - not at the Pentagon profligacy I referred to, but at criticism of Pentagon spending itself.
So this week, I responded with another column digging deeper into what we know about Pentagon spending. A preview:
- "All told, every man, woman and child in the United States will spend more than ...
