Obama to seek $83.4 billion for Iraq, Afghan wars

[classicman]

Originally Posted by Redux

I dont understand the issue here.

Yes, this supplemental to the 09 budget is not in the budget that was adopted last year. 09 was Bush's last budget and did not include war funding (none of his budgets ever included war funding) and Bush's last supplemental (non-budget request) was only through May.

You are very good at avoidance Redux.
This administration made an issue of the war funding not being in the previous administrations budgets.
This administration also made a big issue of their transparency... Also this administration said that the war funding would be in the budgets from now on. ok, fine. Nothing new there.

Now just weeks after passing their budget they come back for another 85,000,000,000. I'm sure no one thought of this "in their plan" just a few weeks ago, eh? Seems rather shady to me. No one thought to slip this in so it would get counted under Bushs budget - nahhhh. That's Chicago style.

Originally Posted by TGRR

Also, why the hell would a senator vote for anything, if he isn't told why he's being asked to vote for it? Any senator that would vote for something without knowing the facts should be run out of congress. Secrecy be damned.

Yet the opposite is true. Too many sheep following the wonderful rhetoric.