Comments on: The Cost Of War: $136 Billion In 2009

Defense Secretary Puts Price Tag On Fighting In Iraq And Afghanistan

[rwassel]

Wow, there are some seriously mis-informed people on here.

"No, we didn''''t, when Clinton left office our national debt was the highest it''''s ever been in history at the time! "

What''s your point? Bush will have that honor when he leaves office. Our national DEBT has been climbing every year since the dawn of time. Clinton did actually leave office with a budget SURPLUS, while Bush is leaving with a budget DEFICIT.

[saraplumber]

No, we didn''''t, when Clinton left office our national debt was the highest it''''s ever been in history at the time!

Posted by TexHillGirl at 02:04 PM : Jan 07, 2009
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Boy, you really are getting dumber.

[rwassel]

"...but the fact remains that this so called ''Government Entitlements'' such as welfare and hand outs are the real reasons why this country is failing economically."

Posted by MindURownBiz

Seriously, I wasn''t going to post something on here, until I read this. Your other comments were pretty vague and uninformed, but this is just downright lying.

If you bothered to do any research, you would see that welfare spending accounts for 1% of the Federal Budget. Defense spending accounts for 20%. Nice try, professor, but nobody''s buying what you''re selling.

[ddaryl1]

Who the hell debunked them? The socialistpolicies eating off this country started back in 1964 under Lyndon Johnson...the national debt has been rising every day since then...and no president has been able to to stop with, not with trickle up, trickle down, voo doo, slick willy wonka cook the books, tax up, tax down...and as long as it keeps sucking off the country it won''''t stop, period...

Especially with your new president=elect proposing tax cuts and $500 stimulus cks...tossing the $1 trillion we already put in those programs, and another $1 trillion on top of it!

Like I said, the dumb and dumber just get dumber.

Posted by TexHillGirl

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Didn''t we have a national surplus when Bush took office ????

sounds like someone has selective memory.

Obviously you are one of those republicans that will say twist and do anything to save the republican face.

and I beleive there are dems who are problems, but when faced with the recent debacle I''ll never trust a republican until the day i die and Bush/Cheney and people like yourself are the reason why.

you really need to assess your own incompetence before you go off on half educated tangents

[ddaryl1]

hey TexHillGirl.. fact is Bush and Company and the republican majoriy congress for 6 of those 8 years could have easily made many different decisions that would have had a positve effect on America... Sad part is only in the last 2 years have Ameircans woken up to the deception, but that time the economic snowball was too large to stop and Bush as the decider vetoed anything the dems tried to push through.

instead we are in a major hole and the only fix is to get money back into the workers hands ASAP... The middle class is the entire foundation on which this ocuntry rests

Bush never creaed a job in this country outside of governemnt or military. He gave tax breaks to the already wealthy and to the corporations in which he said it would allow these entities to invest into America''s infrastrucutre and R&D which in return would create a lot of new high paying jobs for Americans.

where the hell are those jobs that the tax breaks for the wealthy/corps were supposed to supply???

we tried it the republican way, it was a collosal failure

[texasbeta]

Pretty harsh word (Rape) when I hope you realize who logistically supports our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan? Would you rather not have our troops with housing and food while they are deployed?
Understand your point about mismanagement, but you also need to understand that there is a high price involved in this support - whether it is Halliburton or not.


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Posted by MindURownBiz

Charging for services that were rendered, but never recieved, on a no bid contract...yeah, rape. Rape championed by the administration who served and supported Halliburton. Tell me...was Halliburton there during the 1st war, Vietnam, WWII, Granada, Beruit, anywhere?

[saraplumber]

The dumb and dumber just get dumber.

Posted by TexHillGirl at 01:34 PM : Jan 07, 2009
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Good self-assessment.

[texasbeta]

TexHillGirl - any way you can blame other people huh? Based on your logic, your belief is that even though every financial problem we are currently in, stems from the Republicans, and all of your arguments have been debunked...you now blame Obama for what he will have to spend to get us out? Just fess up - stop trying to cloak it in anything about finances...you hate the dude because he is a black guy. Nothing more. Transparency girl...transparency

[texasbeta]

What about the hundreds of millions that were sent to Iraq, with no oversight or plan...that were stolen, lost, and passed onto no bid contractors sent by Bush''s admin? What about the rape we suffered at the hand of Halliburton? What about the initial 700 billion we were told by Bush that we MUST authorize immediately for the housing market...to which he and his buds passed immediately onto financial institutions who spent it on vacations and bonuses?

[kevboom]

"an insignificant pittance compared to the billions and billions of bailout dollars the d-crats will throw out every day"

At a rate of $60-70 billion being spent on Bush''s wars every six months, I wonder why the country needs a bailout. Duh. A third grader has more common sense than you.

[texasbeta]

The Cost Of War: $136 Billion In 2009"

...an insignificant pittance compared to the billions and billions of bailout dollars the d-crats will throw out every day.

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Posted by LoonyLeft


BUSH escalates spending more than any person in history, he and the neo-cons like Phil Gramm champion deregulation which collapses the financial system, and you have the gaul to blame Democrats? How is the weather in fantasyland?

[texasbeta]

peace4321 - Iraq and all the money associated with it, AND THE DEATHS, have absolutely nothing, nothing...to do with our freedoms.

[GCG]

"The Cost Of War: $136 Billion In 2009". Just another little something more from the ''G.W.Butch years'' that our grandchildren will be paying off!

[saraplumber]

What a god damned waste.

[centerfall94]

Thanks for the huge debt, the war, and associated death, Bush & neocons.

[edward1975-2009]

Ands that is just what it cost without Obama turning his attention to Afghanistan, which is exactly where we are going next. With the build-up and sending more resources, not too mention the fact that we will be bombing the heck out of the mountains, yup, this is going to get steep.