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bacasper

Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:17 am Post subject: Nobel Peace Winner Obama: MORE FOR WAR! |
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Obama wants $33 billion more for wars
Comes on top of record $708 billion request for next year
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration plans to ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on top of a record request for $708 billion for the Defense Department next year, The Associated Press has learned.
The administration also plans to tell Congress next month that its central military objectives for the next four years will include winning the current wars while preventing new ones, and its core missions will include both counterinsurgency and counterterror operations.
The administration's Quadrennial Defense Review, the main articulation of U.S. military doctrine, is due in Congress on Feb. 1. Top military commanders were briefed on the document at the Pentagon on Monday and Tuesday. They also received a preview of the administration's budget plans through 2015. |
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Reggie
Joined: 21 Sep 2009
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Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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I hope he prints that money out of thin air in time to print up the money we'll need to bail out California.
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Fox

Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:34 pm Post subject: Re: Nobel Peace Winner Obama: MORE FOR WAR! |
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| bacasper wrote: |
| The administration also plans to tell Congress next month that its central military objectives for the next four years will include winning the current wars while preventing new ones, and its core missions will include both counterinsurgency and counterterror operations. |
Preventing new ones means what, exactly? It's not as if there are nations that are actively trying to invade us. You know what would be a really good way to prevent new wars? Stop considering a tiny number of people in a given country launching a terror attack against us a valid casus belli. |
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Reggie
Joined: 21 Sep 2009
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Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:48 pm Post subject: Re: Nobel Peace Winner Obama: MORE FOR WAR! |
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| Fox wrote: |
| Preventing new ones means what, exactly? It's not as if there are nations that are actively trying to invade us. You know what would be a really good way to prevent new wars? Stop considering a tiny number of people in a given country launching a terror attack against us a valid casus belli. |
Hey, just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. |
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