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Gates Sees Need for at Least $83 Billion More in 2009 for Wars
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Tony Capaccio
Bloomberg
February 20, 2009
The Pentagon needs at least $83 billion more for combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through the end of this fiscal year, Pentagon officials told the White House.
This figure includes $7.3 billion to pay for adding troops in Afghanistan, Pentagon officials wrote to the Office of Management and Budget on Feb. 3. The U.S. will add about 17,000 to its force of 38,000, President Barack Obama announced this week.
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The $83 billion is $13.3 billion more than Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in late December was needed. That estimate of $69.7 billion didn’t include the cost of sending more troops to Afghanistan, he said then.
Congress already has approved $65.9 billion in emergency wartime spending for fiscal 2009, which ends Sept. 30. The latest request would bring the amount to about $149 billion.
That is less than the $176 billion Congress approved for fiscal 2008 and the $171 billion for fiscal 2007, according to the Congress Research Service.
The Pentagon, in its letter, told OMB it “believes that $130 billion to $140 billion will be required in fiscal 2010.”
“Final decisions on these numbers require greater clarity on the pace of force flows into Afghanistan and out of Iraq,” it said.
The U.S. commander in Iraq, Army General David McKiernan, said Feb. 18 that the 17,000 extra soldiers and Marines “will get us what we need” through the summer months and the Afghan elections now scheduled for Aug. 20.
That number will give him “roughly two-thirds” of the additional 30,000 troops he requested to beat back a renewed Taliban insurgency, he told reporters at the Pentagon.
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February 20th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
And the military/industrial complex doesn’t miss a beat with a change of President’s. The wheels just keep on turning. Did anyone catch his slip of the tongue on tv the other day when he mentioned that a “permanent” presence is needed in the middle east. he immediately backpeddled off that statement. So, it looks like that embassy we built that’s larger than the vatican won’t be abandoned anytime soon huh?
temudgin the great khan Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
with all the states declaring sovereignty were are they gonna get the tax money from???
February 20th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
more tyranny through war, greed and murder. When will the madness stop??
razmataz Reply:
February 21st, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Spending billions to make poor, destitute Iraqis homeless, while our own people here are homeless due to the billion dollars shortfall.
February 20th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Numerology again. In the 83 Billion, you have (8+3 = 11), and 11 is assigned to any event that directly aids the rise of the NWO.
razmataz Reply:
February 21st, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Numerology in this 777, the Libra Triad of Sevens. this number kept showing up the day in Sept when the market crashed, often stalling at 777.88, 777.02 etc etc. went on for two days stratight this odd conjunction of sevens.
February 20th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
just to see if that guys post is right. Alex Jones’s wife is a jew. (not sure if that’s accurate or not, just testing)
February 20th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Oh give him a trillion tight-wads,what’s ten minutes extra printing time anyway!!!
February 20th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Sorry, the party is over.
The Treasury is Bankrupt,
due to theft.
February 20th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
And it currently has a force of 38,000, 3+8=11, and 17000 more troops?, being put in my the Illuminati Sun Worshipers (1+7=8, number of the sun worshiper, for the sun is the 8 pointed star), and that would bring it up to 55,000 (5 is the number of death), and here we have a double 5, (for these troops are in or are being sent to the Afghan War, where there is a significant chance of death). And if they die, the Illuminati would see them as sacrifices to their gods.
fukyouinfowash Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
What is the number for peace?
roaddog Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
there is no peace with the nwo
razmataz Reply:
February 21st, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Look at a map. Those troops are part of a buildup for the Iran invasion just across the Afghan border.
February 20th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
that’s not the agenda though.. they want control over all the world..
the reason we went into Afghanistan is to put a oil pipe line threw the country to make it cheaper and or easier to get the oil to the states. even though the war they are waging is cost a holy hell of a lot of money that they soaked out of us. the Iraq war is all about securing oil for the federal govt- futures i guess you can say from what i heard they are pumping more oil into the Alaska oil fields then they take out of the fields.. the sad thing is the feds had killed a leader of a sovereign nation. not that I’m defending Saddam Hussein, he was exterminated i believe for “W”s vengence. not because he was bad… i say as soon as texas gets their sovereinty they arrest bush”W” for his war crimes! then hang him like they did hussien after he gets his day in court of course. the shoe is on the other foot bushy boy. punn intended
brad Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
I think there giving that oil to Euro nations for support of thier troops in the middle east, and plus some money to fund a another world war.
February 20th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
gold is up…stock market is WAY down, its about over, they have to get the money while they can still print it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNOJc0w-fzY
February 20th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Remember everyone, that a good chunk of the taliban were broken out of prison to get this war going… and U.S. was involved
February 20th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
how is ur day going?Deleting lots of good comments?
go lick somepoo
February 20th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Testing, sorry im just testing comment posting. I never trusted Bill Gates Charity.
February 20th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
I AM ASHAMED OF WHAT AMERICA HAS BECOME……AND I THINK IT’S TIME TO OPEN A CAN OF WHOOP-ASS AND SHOW THESE BASTARDS HOW TO LIVE LIKE MEN…..AND NOT LIKE THE FEMININE BOYS THEY HAVE BECOME. YOU’RE AN IDIOT MR. GATES!
February 20th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
The Bible has prophesied many things some thousands of years before it happened. Never wrong.
The Bible predicted 7 empires before they happened. Now one empire the eigth King is to arize. The beast . The mark is on the back of the dollar bill however worshiping the beast must accompany it. God will OPPOSE the beast, those who worship and follow the eigth kingdom. He will be on our side. He will provide a way. Pray The right hand of the Father sits Jesus Christ. It is the most powerful position in the Universe. Jesus ever lives to make interssetion. God Bless everyone. I am for you. Let us unite in His Name. A peaceful Kingdom for all.
H John B
February 20th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
PRAISE THE OBAMA WAR MACHINE ..KING OF BABYLON
Ditto Reply:
February 21st, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Your era is ending. Soon the world will not be the world you know. I am not speaking of a barren world, or one depopulated, but of the end of your technological era. Many inventions of mankind will be broken down and there will be more of a peasant attitude and way of life everywhere. After this breakdown of false society will come persecution of Christians and also a new world order. The anti-christ will be on earth trying to affect the new world order. Hardly anyone will notice the extent of his influence until afterwards. He will not be of tremendous visibility until he is accomplished. That is to say, he will not rule, control, and be at all obvious to the world at the peak of his influence. He will not be unlike a figure such as Marx, except his ideas will be more immediate.
February 21st, 2009 at 1:54 am
IM muslim and the bible is just as fucked up as our book.. the koran..
Sir Baby De Porky Reply:
February 21st, 2009 at 9:05 pm
The only scriptures that were not polluted , and where God actually speaks , are the Vedas ,
more specifically , the Srimad Bhagavatam , or the Bhagavad Gita ( by A.C. Baktivedanta
Swami )
Watch the ” Mahabharata ” by Peter Brooks ( the history of the world 5000 years ago !!! )
February 21st, 2009 at 2:37 am
a quote from a wise friend:
“INSANITY IS THE OVERT OR COVERT BUT ALWAYS COMPLEX AND CONTINUOUS DETERMINATION TO HARM OR DESTROY.
Possibly the only frightening thing about it is the cleverness with which it can be hidden.
Whereas a sane person can become angry or upset and a bit destructive for short periods, he or she recovers. The insane mask it… …and do not recover.”
Our planet is now ruled by the insane. Period.
February 24th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
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