Pentagon: early stages of drafting wartime request for $100 billion MORE

By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer
50 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is in the early stages of drafting a wartime request for up to $100 billion more for Iraq and Afghanistan, lawmakers say, a figure that would push spending related to the wars toward a staggering half-trillion dollars.

Reps. Bill Young, R-Fla., the chairman of the House appropriations defense panel, and John Murtha, D-Pa., the senior Democrat on that subcommittee, say the military has informally told them it wants $80 billion to $100 billion in a war-spending package that the White House is expected to send Congress next year.

That would be in addition to $50 billion Congress is about to give the Pentagon before lawmakers adjourn for the year for operations in Iraq for the beginning of 2006. Military commanders expect that pot to last through May.

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Congress has approved more than $300 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan, including military operations, reconstruction, embassy security and foreign aid, as well as other costs related to the war on terrorism, according to the Congressional Research Service, which writes reports for Congress.

Murtha mentioned the $100 billion figure last week to reporters, saying "Twenty years it's going to take to settle this thing. The American people are not going to put up with it, can't afford it."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051213/ap_on_go_co/iraq_war_costs

:wtf:

is making a killing on this shit. In $ and Blood. Halliburton stock up like 63% and as long as the Repubs believe in the terra terra terra moto ......., victory in Iraq, spreading 'democracy' ...... bs ..... we will become a third world country in no time. Well on our way. This shit has got to stop. Peace. :)

Newspapers largely ignored Murtha's revelation that military will request $100 billion for war next year

http://mediamatters.org/items/200512090011

What an accomplishment! What vision!

Half a trillion dollars spent on war machines and destruction.
Depleted uranium spread everywhere with a 4.5 billion year half life.
Infrastructure destroyed and tens of thousands of innocents killed and maimed.
Electricity and oil production below pre-war levels 1000 days later.
America shamed and hated worldwide because of disgusting torture and killing.
Whole cities demolished, while insurgent attacks and casualties continue to increase.
Permanent bases under construction for the long term occupation and eventual Syria and Iran battles.
More than 2 additional gold-star mothers being created each day.
More than 16 US Soldiers INJURED per DAY average.
How many families ruined? How many children left without a parent? How much pain?

Meanwhile Americans are living in tents in New Orleans.