House GOP Unveils $86.7B Iraq Package - Democratic Underground

bobthedrummer

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Mon Oct-06-03 04:27 PM
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House GOP Unveils $86.7B Iraq Package

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3234653,00.html

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bif

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Mon Oct-06-03 04:42 PM
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1. Wow!

They trimmed it back $.3 billion! What a joke!

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Bandit

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Mon Oct-06-03 04:58 PM
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3. GOP must need that "three hundred million" for Campaigning.

Imagine what America could do with three hundred million let alone "eighty seven thousand million."

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lovedems

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Mon Oct-06-03 04:54 PM
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2. I still wonder how much pork is in there.

It is still a pretty hefty figure.

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Old and In the Way

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Mon Oct-06-03 05:03 PM
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4. The New Republican Pork

It's the new white meat.

Basically, cut the "fat" out of domestic programs and then make war on defenseless countries. Afterwards, reward non-competitive contracts to your oil buds and former employers.

Really, this is war profiteering on a scale we've never witnessed....but no story there for our SCLM.

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RUMMYisFROSTED

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Mon Oct-06-03 05:09 PM
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5. An unprecedented raid on the national treasury.

This is the most galling aspect of this admin.

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beanball

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Mon Oct-06-03 08:38 PM
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9. The Bush criminal administration

those five courtjesters,the cabinet and all house and senate republicans are criminals of the lowest order.(scumbags)

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lovedems

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Mon Oct-06-03 05:10 PM
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6. I am assuming that SCLM has something to do with the media

(idiot! sorry) But the media gets rich off of war too! That is probably why the hyped it so much!

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Bandit

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Mon Oct-06-03 05:53 PM
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7. You would think so but actually Network news and even cable news shows

Have been losing audience drastically. Some blame it on the internet some say it is bias, but whatever, war hasn't been the cash cow some thought it would be.

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UpInArms

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Mon Oct-06-03 06:03 PM
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8. couple of my favorites

are $400 million for 2 4,000 bed prisons - 50,000 for each bed?? steep price compared to about $7 - 10K for the USA

$100 million for witness protection program - 24 million Iraqis - how many millionaires are we going to make?

$1 Billion for training police when 2 countries have offered to do it for free

$900 million to import oil into Iraq

$2 billion to make an Iraqi army - duh - didn't we just get rid of theirs?

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kainah

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Mon Oct-06-03 10:56 PM
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10. don't forget $9 million to develop Iraqi zip codes n/t

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bobthedrummer

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Mon Oct-06-03 11:00 PM
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11. They just said no to ZIP codes and garbage trucks

my community could use some new garbage trucks as well as some jobs-what an outrageous scam:puke::argh:

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Old and In the Way

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Mon Oct-06-03 11:10 PM
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12. Garbage trucks were the only thing in the budget that made any sense.

And reasonably priced at $50,000. Probably if they were $500,000 per, they would have sailed through.....

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nolabels

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Tue Oct-07-03 12:25 AM
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13. Actually depending on accessories, from $150,000 to 250,000

would be my guess. Stock flatbed class 3 cost about $50,000. Having worked on them 10 years ago they were about $150,000 for a new one.

Really all they need is one,just take it and load * with all the rest of them fraudulent cronny capitalists and dump them out at the toxic landfill, problem solved and everybody gets the win-win

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NickB79

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Tue Oct-07-03 01:54 AM
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14. And who's gonna be doing all the building and installing?

Are we gonna employ the millions of now-jobless Iraqis who have the skills, experience and motivation to do the work? HELL NO!!! We're gonna have Halliburton and friends build it at 10X the price it would cost the local Iraqi companies to build.

I grew up on a hog farm, and boy do I smell pork right now. Actually, it smells like pigsh*t.

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