Quickly, Sherman ... into the wayback machine:
TED KOPPEL: (Off Camera) All right, this is the first. I mean, when you talk about 1.7, you’re not suggesting that the rebuilding of Iraq is gonna be done for $1.7 billion?
ANDREW NATSIOS: Well, in terms of the American taxpayers contribution, I do, this is it for the US. The rest of the rebuilding of Iraq will be done by other countries who have already made pledges, Britain, Germany, Norway, Japan, Canada, and Iraqi oil revenues, eventually in several years, when it’s up and running and there’s a new government that’s been democratically elected, will finish the job with their own revenues. They’re going to get in $20 billion a year in oil revenues. But the American part of this will be 1.7 billion. We have no plans for any further-on funding for this.
So ... how's that working out for you guys, Andy? Whoops ... not so well (all emphasis added with tail wagging enthusiasm):
Bush's $2.9 trillion request is 'sticker shock'
President Bush will send Congress a $2.9 trillion spending request Monday that seeks billions of dollars more to fight the Iraq war and tries to restrain the spiraling cost of the government's big health care programs...
For the first time, Bush will spell out details of the spending requests for Iraq and Afghanistan in the budget books. Previously, he has lumped that spending into supplemental requests with less detail.
Bush said he would ask for an additional $100 billion for Iraq and the global war on terrorism this year, on top of $70 billion already sought.
For 2008, that spending would drop to $145 billion and fall to $50 billion in 2009, although administration officials conceded that the 2008 and 2009 requests could go higher depending on the progress of the war effort.
At this point, a snarky punchline would be entirely gratuitous, don't you think?
2 comments:
Conservatives should be outraged to a point far passed their usual incoherence about this on so many levels:
1. The billions sunk into this has been a cash-grab for unscrupulous war profiteers. There are billions that are so far unaccounted for, having been stolen from Americans themselves, many of them Republican loyalists. Someone needs to search Simone Ledeen's freezer for bundles of cash.
2. All of this public funding poured into the military-industrial complex is a huge government subsidy which is supposed to be strengst verboten under holy free market principles and according to the sacred parchment upon which NAFTA (Peace Be Upon It) is written.
3. The laziest, most avaricious tax-and-spend-and-steal fiberal lieberal theft-wing moonbat can only dream of a government budgets that huge.
I guess we're not hearing too much from Canadian Conservatives because they've been shocked into benumbed silence. Poor things.
The laziest, most avaricious tax-and-spend-and-steal fiberal lieberal theft-wing moonbat can only dream of a government budgets that huge.
Yeah, but with that kind of cash, who would they help? Welfare moms. Immigrants (probably illegal ones). Women's groups. Terrorists.
Do you see shareholders in that list anywhere? No, me neither. So obviously it would be just craziness to let Fibranos spend that sort of cash.
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