On The $25 Billion Request

The administration is asking congress to abandon its duty of oversight. The president wants the money without giving any specificity on what it will be spent! What a joke!

Senator Collins read Wolfowitz an E-mail from a soldier complaining that he had only a light armor vehicle and WOULD NOT HAVE ANY AMMUNITION IF HE WERE NOT GIVEN SOME BY DANISH TROOPS.

Did you see Wolfowitz stonewall answering the question whether or not keeping a hood on a prisoner's head for 72 hours is inhumane?

Congress is still not standing up enough to this administration.

WE HAVE A ONE PARTY, ONE BRANCH GOVERNMENT, FOLKS!

The hearings are being replayed on CSPAN right now.

Senator Byrd says to Wolfowitz: "Our Forefathers would have scorned such arrogance as has been demonstrated by this administration in this request." And then he reads Article IX of the Constitution to him. God Bless Robert Byrd.

I wrote an essay against authorizing the $25 billion without GAO oversight at:

http://www.moveleft.com/moveleft_essay_2004_05_12_bush_wants_25_billion_to_spend_however.asp


The arrogance of Bush is limitless.

He is asking Congress for $25 billion to spend on Iraq and Afghanistan, based on an outline about three pages long.

No company would give a partner $25 billion based on a three page outline; Congress shouldn't treat OUR money as any less precious.

U.S. taxpayers have already paid $157 billion for the wars In Afghanistan and Iraq, on top of ordinary military spending.

According to Bob Woodward's book, "Plan of Attack," $700 million appropriated by Congress for the Afghanistan War was illegally diverted by Bush to prepare for the Iraq War.

Halliburton has received over $8 billion in no-bid contracts. The more Halliburton spends, the more it gets plus a percentage. That contract encourages overspending.

Vice President Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliburton from 1995-200, and still receives compensation from Halliburton.

Now Bush wants another $25 billion.

continued at MOVELEFT.COM:


http://www.moveleft.com/moveleft_essay_2004_05_12_bush_wants_25_billion_to_spend_however.asp

. . . CACI was awarded a TEN MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT TO PROVIDE 27 PEOPLE FOR A ONE YEAR PERIOD.

Could any of you handle that? Providing 27 interrogators to our prisons in Iraq for a year at the cost of $10 million?

Now that is what I call some real business acumen.