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Apologies for the source . . . some times you just have to stare into the evil . . .
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA . . . damn even the Klan is telling jokes these days."I'm going to support this $25 billion, but we're going to put limitations on it because we're sworn to protect the people's money," said Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., who waved a copy of the Constitution (search) at the witness table.
Technically Bolton is telling the truth. Bush will spend the $25B this year and then another $50B next year.Wolfowitz's acknowledgment that the war price tag would exceed $50 billion for the budget year that starts Oct. 1 edged the administration toward critics' estimates of closer to $75 billion. White House budget chief Joshua Bolten (search) earlier this year said the "upper limit" of next year's war spending might be $50 billion.
Here's my question. Do we really need to spend $1B on an Iraqi embassy? Judging from current events I think we need to spend that money on development projects in West Virginia.Bush's war request excludes $1 billion that Marc Grossman, undersecretary of state for political affairs, told the House International Relations Committee will be needed next year to staff a U.S. embassy in Baghdad.
That excludes construction of an embassy, which under some scenarios would cost another $1 billion.