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2011-01-07 03:26 PM

LLBarry
Beverly, MA
Posts: 299

The Pentagon is expected to seek in the range of $120 billion for overseas war costs next year, a significant drop from 2011 but still a stubborn strain on deficit-reduction efforts.

The new request was discussed Thursday at a closed-door briefing for top lawmakers with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and confirmed to POLITICO by an administration official.

For the current fiscal year, the Obama administration has assumed about $159 billion in costs for military operations, chiefly in Afghanistan and Iraq. The new estimates now appear to reflect the double impact of pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq and also getting a better handle on stepped-up operations in Afghanistan.

Nonetheless it is a very different picture than President Barack Obama had once hoped for as a candidate backed by anti-war forces in his party. In contrast with the Bush-era budgets, Obama has made a point of including some place-holder for war costs in his spending plans, but these have proven more of a gesture than any accurate forecast of the dollars needed.

Do we really need to spend all this on war?

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47206.html

2011-01-10 06:47 PM

indianacarnie
Jeffersonville, IN
Posts: 77

NO. But as a veteran I must say that if we are going to put our troops there we have a moral duty to give them everything it takes to be as safe as possible.
A totally unnecessary war,YES! Should we be there,NO. The case can be made for military operations, real terrorism IS out there, but I think its the wrong place and wrong time.

What many, on the right especially, forget is that "terrorism" has been with us for a long long time. It's not an invention of the islamic fundlementalists. Does anyone remember "the red brigades","badder meinhof gang", and many others? And thats just recent history. Terrorism per se, will always be a part of life ESPECIALLY if "god" is thrown into the equation. 'Gott Mit Uns', is not new either.

2011-01-11 04:26 PM

sbfriedman
Denton, TX
Posts: 931

Well said, indianacarnie.

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