Pentagon To Get $368 Billion Budget

[Nottingham]

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Pentagon To Get $368 Billion Budget
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Big News Network.com Friday 26th September, 2003

The Pentagon has been given its $368 billion wish list from Congress to modernize and expand its fleet of aircraft, ships and weapons, a report said Thursday.

The measure passed in the House by a vote of 407 to 15 after seven minutes of debate. The Senate is expected to take up the legislation Thursday, the Washington Post said.

The $75 billion for new hardware, electronics and weapons platforms -- ranging from old-line tanks with updated sensors to a futuristic minisub capable of carrying commandos -- was included in a $368.2 billion Pentagon spending bill for the fiscal year that begins Wednesday.

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This War Machine is getting Damn Expensive! :bounce:

[arcane1]

1. and nobody in the admin has financial 'interest'..

in any of the contractors that are getting these tax dollars?

:shrug:

[FlashHarry]

2. Sooner or later...

...that'll add up to real money!

[Noordam]

3. Gore wanted more money for the military

The Cold War is over and Rummy and WhistleAss do not understand it. Also the Pentagon.

Kill the F-22

Kill the Star Wars Missles

BUT put do put money into things like "futuristic minisub capable of carrying commandos "

[Parche]

5. What they really need

The Austin Powers mini sub

So GW Bush could see his fazsha

[Noordam]

7. They are now using a couple of old nuclear missle Boomers

for this. In this day and age I could understand a small mini-sub for this type work.

[Nottingham]

4. This is More Money for Bush and his Buddies

;bounce:

[ClintonTyree]

6. Guns or Butter..................

Guns won.

[prolesunited]

9. Here's their argument in a nutshell

Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.
— Hermann Goering
Obviously taking a lesson from the fascists of the past.

I really like this one better:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Mari333]

8. Yet another good reason to read Gore Vidal again

http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/books/DeclineFallAmEmp.html
http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/books/DeclineFallAmEmp.html#NationalSecurityState

[denverbill]

10. $368 for the Pentagon, $500 billion deficit.

We are passing the entire defense budget for next year, plus another $130 billion, on for our children to pay.

Irresponsible, greedy bastard Republicans.