lily
03-11-2007, 10:29 PM
Ok, all the boots aren't even on the ground yet and he's already asking for more. I say he knew all along that he needed this many, but knew it wouldn't fly, considering the outage that happened to him asking for 21,000 . How dumb does he think Americans are anyway? (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10597878/)
Bush adds funds to increase troop request
President seeks $3.2B to pay for 8,200 more troops than previously planned
Updated: 10:46 a.m. ET March 11, 2007
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - President Bush asked Congress on Saturday for $3.2
billion to pay for 8,200 more U.S. troops needed in Afghanistan and Iraq on
top of the 21,500-troop buildup he announced in January.
Bush wants Congress to fund 3,500 new U.S. troops to expand training of
local police and army units in Afghanistan. The money also would pay for the
estimated 3,500 existing U.S. troops he already announced would be staying
longer in the region to counter an anticipated Taliban offensive in
Afghanistan this spring.
In Iraq, most of the additional troops would help with the latest Baghdad
security plan, which is getting under way in the capital. The money would
pay for 2,400 combat support troops, 2,200 military police forces and 129
troops for reconstruction teams.
The budget revisions come as many lawmakers opposed to the buildup in Iraq
are debating funding for the war. But in a letter to House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi, Bush proposed canceling $3.2 billion in low-priority defense items
to offset the extra money needed to support the additional troops.
Cutting the programs, he said, would eliminate the need to increase the
overall $93.4 billion in additional defense money he’s already requested to
finance this year’s war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“This revised request would better align resources based on the assessment
of military commanders to achieve the goal of establishing Iraq and
Afghanistan as democratic and secure nations that are free of terrorism,”
Bush wrote in his letter to lawmakers.
Bush signed the letter on his flight Friday from Brazil to Uruguay, part of
his five-nation tour of Latin America that continues on Sunday in Colombia.
The White House released the letter Saturday in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, recently hinted of the
need to bolster the U.S. troop presence in Iraq.
“Gen. Petraeus expects under the Baghdad security plan as well as other
parts of Iraq, that the number of people going into detention will increase
and so these military police forces will be for that,” said Gordon Johndroe,
a spokesman for the National Security Council.
Bush adds funds to increase troop request
President seeks $3.2B to pay for 8,200 more troops than previously planned
Updated: 10:46 a.m. ET March 11, 2007
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - President Bush asked Congress on Saturday for $3.2
billion to pay for 8,200 more U.S. troops needed in Afghanistan and Iraq on
top of the 21,500-troop buildup he announced in January.
Bush wants Congress to fund 3,500 new U.S. troops to expand training of
local police and army units in Afghanistan. The money also would pay for the
estimated 3,500 existing U.S. troops he already announced would be staying
longer in the region to counter an anticipated Taliban offensive in
Afghanistan this spring.
In Iraq, most of the additional troops would help with the latest Baghdad
security plan, which is getting under way in the capital. The money would
pay for 2,400 combat support troops, 2,200 military police forces and 129
troops for reconstruction teams.
The budget revisions come as many lawmakers opposed to the buildup in Iraq
are debating funding for the war. But in a letter to House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi, Bush proposed canceling $3.2 billion in low-priority defense items
to offset the extra money needed to support the additional troops.
Cutting the programs, he said, would eliminate the need to increase the
overall $93.4 billion in additional defense money he’s already requested to
finance this year’s war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“This revised request would better align resources based on the assessment
of military commanders to achieve the goal of establishing Iraq and
Afghanistan as democratic and secure nations that are free of terrorism,”
Bush wrote in his letter to lawmakers.
Bush signed the letter on his flight Friday from Brazil to Uruguay, part of
his five-nation tour of Latin America that continues on Sunday in Colombia.
The White House released the letter Saturday in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, recently hinted of the
need to bolster the U.S. troop presence in Iraq.
“Gen. Petraeus expects under the Baghdad security plan as well as other
parts of Iraq, that the number of people going into detention will increase
and so these military police forces will be for that,” said Gordon Johndroe,
a spokesman for the National Security Council.