Congress throws another half trillion at the Middle East.

[rdean]

House rejects withdrawal from ISIS war TheHill

Congress voted to authorize a $500 million train and equip program

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Wow, Republicans want to cut school lunches and education and infrastructure here but want to spend another half trillion on the Middle East after the trillions they spent under Bush. What does it take for Republicans to want to invest in this country? Why do they love the Middle East more than they love America?

 

[TheOldSchool]

God dammit. Wtf has republicans so enamored by that money pit of sand and nothing? Crusades 2.0?

 

[ScienceRocks]

But, yet asteroid defense and space exploration that gets less then 18 billion/year is the big problem. These people are nuts.

 

[farmer]

500 million is a half a billion not trillion.

 

[hortysir]

So we vacate the region and give ISIS free reign?

 

[jasonnfree]

So we vacate the region and give ISIS free reign?

Yep. They have no long range bombers or nuclear subs to attack this country.

 

[farmer]

We as a country have been sticking our noses into the whole region for so long now we really have only two choices. We either cut our losses and come home which means come home and stay home. Or we can beat them back to the stone age, but to do that we have to fight a total war, no more half-assed clean war. We would habe to prove that we mean business.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

House rejects withdrawal from ISIS war TheHill

Congress voted to authorize a $500 million train and equip program

.
Wow, Republicans want to cut school lunches and education and infrastructure here but want to spend another half trillion on the Middle East after the trillions they spent under Bush. What does it take for Republicans to want to invest in this country? Why do they love the Middle East more than they love America?

You know $500 million isn't half a trillion. With $500 million you only get half of an obamacare web site

 

[TheOldSchool]

We as a country have been sticking our noses into the whole region for so long now we really have only two choices. We either cut our losses and come home which means come home and stay home. Or we can beat them back to the stone age, but to do that we have to fight a total war, no more half-assed clean war. We would habe to prove that we mean business.

Cut our losses. There's nothing for us there.

 

[Wyatt earp]

500 million is a half a billion not trillion.

once again liberals prove they can't do math

 

[hipeter924]

We as a country have been sticking our noses into the whole region for so long now we really have only two choices. We either cut our losses and come home which means come home and stay home. Or we can beat them back to the stone age, but to do that we have to fight a total war, no more half-assed clean war. We would habe to prove that we mean business.

Cut our losses. There's nothing for us there.

Yep. ISIS is an issue, but there are plenty of ways around it like selling weapons to/arming the Kurds or just turning a blind eye to Iranian militias.

 

[rdean]

500 million is a half a billion not trillion.

Yea, but when they sent 10,000 more troops over there, send bombers and drones and aircraft carriers and all the other equipment they want to send. Plus the cost of all the US soldiers that you know will get injured, it will be over a half trillion more than the three trillion they already spent. You know that. Admit it.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

500 million is a half a billion not trillion.

LOL Good catch

 

[farmer]

I seem to remember being told that wars in Iraq pay for themselves about 12 years ago.

 

[Windship]

lol...
I wonder...how much will wind up in pockets here and there? Hows THAT math answer?

 

[Lonestar_logic]

God dammit. Wtf has republicans so enamored by that money pit of sand and nothing? Crusades 2.0?

Nineteen Republicans and 120 Democrats voted for the measure. And you blame Republicans...SMH

 

[Windship]

yes farmer AND....that traitor also said that we'd be greeted as liberators, we'd be out in 6 months
COMMENT NOW!

"The Iraqi dictator must not be permitted to threaten America and the world with horrible poisons and diseases and gases and atomic weapons."
-- George Bush, Oct. 7, 2002, in a speech in Cincinnati.

LIE #1: "The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program ... Iraq has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes and other equipment needed for gas centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons." -- President Bush, Oct. 7, 2002, in Cincinnati.

LIE #2: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." -- President Bush, Jan.28, 2003, in the State of the Union address.

LIE #3: "We believe [Saddam] has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons." -- Vice President Cheney on March 16, 2003 on "Meet the Press

." LIE #4: "[The CIA possesses] solid reporting of senior-level contacts between Iraq and al-Qaeda going back a decade." -- CIA Director George Tenet in a written statement released Oct. 7, 2002 and echoed in that evening's speech by President Bush.

LIE #5: "We've learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases ... Alliance with terrorists could allow the Iraqi regime to attack America without leaving any fingerprints." -- President Bush, Oct. 7

.LIE #6: "We have also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. We are concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] for missions targeting the United States."-- President Bush, Oct. 7.

LIE #7: "We have seen intelligence over many months that they have chemical and biological weapons, and that they have dispersed them and that they're weaponized and that, in one case at least, the command and control arrangements have been established." -- President Bush, Feb. 8, 2003, in a national radio address.

LIE #8: "Our conservative estimate is that Iraq today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons agent. That is enough to fill 16,000 battlefield rockets."-- Secretary of State Colin Powell, Feb. 5 2003, in remarks to the UN Security Council.

LIE #9: "We know where [Iraq's WMD] are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat." -- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, March 30, 2003, in statements to the press.LIE #10: "Yes, we found a biological laboratory in Iraq which the UN prohibited." -- President Bush in remarks in Poland, published internationally June 1, 2003.

LIE #10: "Yes, we found a biological laboratory in Iraq which the UN prohibited." -- President Bush in remarks in Poland, published internationally June 1, 2003.

 

[Windship]

15 of 19 terrorists are from SAUDI ARABIA!!!! And we invade Iraq! And the war isn't considered over 'till the 5 American oil companies start pumpin"

 

[Windship]

.......but.......

 

[Windship]

.....the war isn't about oil!