US Needs Another $83 Billion for Wars This Year-($7.3 Billion for the Afghan Surge)

[tekisui]

Source: Pakistan Daily Times

LAHORE: The Pentagon needs at least $83 billion more for combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through the end of this fiscal year, Pentagon officials have told the White House. This figure includes $7.3 billion to pay for sending about 17,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. The amount sought is $13.3 billion more than what Defence Secretary Robert Gates had estimated in December. He had said the $69.7 billion estimate did not include the cost of sending more troops to Afghanistan. Congress had already approved $65.9 billion in emergency wartime spending for fiscal 2009, which ends on September 30. daily times monitor

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\02\22\story_22-2-2009_pg7_49

[spanone]

1. let's see if the republicans are 'fiscal conservatives' when it comes to funding war

i seriously doubt it

[MadHound]

2. Is this change?

Neither of these wars need to be expanded, in fact we need to be pulling out of both of them ASAP.

[tekisui]

3. Obama brought a lot of needed change. However, in Afghanistan, he has not.

Get you surge on.:puke:

[lazer47]

4. President Obama has been on the job 1 month today,,

why don't you give the man at least his first hundred days????

[tekisui]

5. I said he has brought much needed change. He also implemented

HIS surge in Afghanistan. Why do I need to wait a hundred days to call that a mistake?

[lazer47]

6. It may be necessary for that many troops, to provide security just to withdraw

[tekisui]

7. But, that is not what is being said.

They are planning a long haul. They are talking in terms of 5 years, not until we withdraw, but to regain what has been lost. We have already been there 8 years. Enough is enough.

[lazer47]

8. I cannot argue that point,,