USA Today did it again! Did they ever!
This is what caught my eye on the rack:
"Iraq and Afghanistan wars may total $2.4 trillion" by Ken Dilanian/USA TODAY October 24, 2007
WASHINGTON — The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could total $2.4 trillion through the next decade, or nearly $8,000 per man, woman and child in the country, according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate scheduled for release today.
A previous CBO estimate put the wars' costs at more than $1.6 trillion. This one adds $705 billion in interest, taking into account that the conflicts are being funded with borrowed money.
[He has FUCKED US, folks!
George Bush has FUCKED the American people with his LIES and HE should be IMPEACHED RIGHT NOW!!!!!]
The new estimate also includes President Bush's request Monday for another $46 billion in war funding, said Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C., budget committee chairman, who provided the CBO's new numbers to USA TODAY.
Assuming that Iraq accounts for about 80% of that total, the Iraq war would cost $1.9 trillion, including $564 million in interest, said Thomas Kahn, Spratt's staff director. The committee holds a hearing on war costs this morning.
[At least the WAR CONTRACTORS are happy!
Shouldn't you be, too, America?
Or are you mad because the fires haven't been put out?
Those damn fires have his fucking name on them!
"California Fires Have Burned at Least 666 Square Miles"
That's YOUR NUMBER, George!
IMPEACH the FUCKING FAILUE!!!!
IMPEACH!!!!!!!!]
Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill.: "The number is so big, it boggles the mind."
[Yeah, so TELL YOUR BOSS that I DON'T WANT ONE MORE PENNY GOING TO HIS LYING WARS!!!!
Got that?
Tell Pelosi NO SPENDING BILLS to the FLOOR!]
Sean Kevelighan, a spokesman for the White House budget office:
"Congress should stop playing politics with our troops by trying to artificially inflate war funding levels."
He declined to provide a White House estimate.
[Well, FUCK THIS WHITE HOUSE because they are a BUNCH of LIARS!!!!!!]
The CBO estimates assume that 75,000 troops will remain in both countries through 2017, including roughly 50,000 in Iraq. That is a "very speculative" projection, though it's not entirely unreasonable, said Loren Thompson, a defense analyst at the non-partisan Lexington Institute.
[You ready to STAY another EIGHT YEARS, minimum, readers?
Are you REALLY, Americans?
If so, they you can eat your war dead, because I've had it with you!
Call Congress today and DEMAND IMPEACHMENT!!!!!!
NO MORE $$$$ for the LYING WARS, got it?!?!]
As of Sept. 30, the two wars have cost $604 billion, the CBO says. Adjusted for inflation, that is higher than the costs of the Korea and Vietnam conflicts, according to the Washington-based Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
Defense spending during those two wars accounted for a far larger share of the American economy.
In the months before the March 2003 Iraq invasion, the Bush administration estimated the Iraq war would cost no more than $50 billion."
[Most people seem to have FORGOTTEN -- just like the MSM that shoveled 'em to us -- all the LIES this administration told to get us into these wars!
Well, I NEVER HAVE!
I got DRUMMED OUT of TWO CLASSROOMS for speaking against these wars!
Well, I WAS RIGHT!
So WHEN you gonna start LISTENING TO ME, huh?
END THESE FUCKING WARS and IMPEACH BUSH/CHENEY!!!!!
WE are TIRED of the LIES!!!!!
So you better GET WITH IT, Congress, or YOU ARE GOING TO BE OUT TO!!!!!!!
Because the AMERICAN PEOPLE are coming with PTCHFORKS and we are gonna SHOVE THEM UP YOUR ASSES unless we GET WHAT WE WANT!!!!!
You've been WARNED, Congress!!!!!
We are COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
