the Sugar Conspiracy

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

An affordable endeavor

The Bush administration plans to announce Tuesday that it will seek about $80 billion in new funding for military operations this year in Iraq and Afghanistan, administration and congressional sources said Monday.

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The new supplemental budget request, which would come on top of the $25 billion in emergency spending that had already been approved for the current fiscal year, would push total 2005 funding for military operations and equipment close to a record $105 billion. Since the first money was provided shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the total provided so far for the U.S. efforts against terrorism would reach more than $280 billion.

When it requested the original $25 billion in May, the administration said it would need another $25 billion later for 2005. The $80 billion request is more than triple that amount.

Damn, that's a lot of money. For some reason, I don't remember the Administration saying it was going to be this expensive. What was it they were saying back then?

Before the invasion, Mitch Daniels, then the White House budget director, predicted Iraq would be “an affordable endeavor,” and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz reassured Congress: “We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon.”

Is this what they mean by "catastrophic success"? Success for the military-industrial complex, catastrophe for the Iraqis.

posted by chris at 9:38 AM
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