ABC News: How Bush plans to pay for Iraq

[Cush]

On Edit: Pay raises will be cut in half to pay for Iraq

2 billion is needed now, 3 million but the end of the year

Over the 4 years:

Water: 16 billion

Electricity: 13 billion

[Cush]

1. Conditions

half of the major cities have bad water, power levels are at 72% of pre war levels

women are afraid to leave the house due to crime (showing footage of a gun battle in Baghdad today

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2. "Mission Accomplished!"

"The UN is a worthless anti-American debate society!"

[CatWoman]

5. why are you ridiculing the UN???

They tried to stop this nightmare.

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6. It's what the right wingers were saying before the war...

Notice the quotes.

[CatWoman]

3. cut WHAT from WHO now????????

[Cush]

4. pay raises

pay raises will be cut

[Junkdrawer]

7. Biden thought the eventual bill would be "hundreds of billions"...

SEN. BIDEN: You know, last time I was on your show, Tim, the thing we talked about was the Hamry report and how the window was closing. And you and I talked about how the window that’s closing is support of the American people, and there’s three things that the American people have to understand and they haven’t been told by the president, and that is this is going to cost us hundreds of billions of dollars over time. We’re spending $4 billion a month just to keep our troops there. And there’s not even a penny put into next year’s budget. The administration hasn’t even budgeted one penny for it yet.

It’s almost like we want to keep this a secret. If the American people know what’s at stake and what is at stake is not only this war on terror. By the way, if get Iraq right, there’s still going to be terror. But if we get Iraq wrong, the entirety of the Middle East is going to become a cauldron for the next decade. And so we have much at stake here, and the president has to go and explain to the American people in order to turn around those numbers, why this is important. He hasn’t given a rationale yet. He should go on prime time and say, “The is what needs to be done. This is what I’m asking of you. And this is what we need, and this is how we’ll succeed.” We’ll get American support if we do that, but no wonder they have those poll numbers now. All they see is chaos and no explanation from the president, except terror.

more...

http://www.msnbc.com/news/956692.asp

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8. Hey, remember the great neo-con plan...

...the oil revenues are supposed to pay for everything in Iraq!