Halliburton and Bechtel need more of your money

A new report by Defense News...says the president will propose another $50 billion [for Iraq], in addition to the $166 billion already spent. According to the non-partisan Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, the request "won't come until after the Nov. 2 presidential election" - effectively concealing the spending request from public scrutiny.

In the lead-up to the Iraq war...White House Budget Director, Mitch Daniels, said Iraq "will not require sustained aid" and that the war cost would "be in the range of $50 billion to $60 billion."...And Bush had his new Budget Director tell the Senate that "we don't anticipate requesting anything additional for the balance of this year" - six weeks before he announced a request for an additional $87 billion. When White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey admitted that Iraq could cost up to $200 billion in the fall of 2002, he was summarily fired for his candor.  article

You know that the right thing to do is to impeach these asshats. They shouldn't even be allowed to get close to November.

Send in the trees.


image lifted from WTF

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.