Do Bushies ever stop digging?

[BaliBabyDoc]

Apologies for the source . . . some times you just have to stare into the evil . . .

"I'm going to support this $25 billion, but we're going to put limitations on it because we're sworn to protect the people's money," said Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., who waved a copy of the Constitution (search) at the witness table.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA . . . damn even the Klan is telling jokes these days.

Wolfowitz's acknowledgment that the war price tag would exceed $50 billion for the budget year that starts Oct. 1 edged the administration toward critics' estimates of closer to $75 billion. White House budget chief Joshua Bolten (search) earlier this year said the "upper limit" of next year's war spending might be $50 billion.

Technically Bolton is telling the truth. Bush will spend the $25B this year and then another $50B next year.

Bush's war request excludes $1 billion that Marc Grossman, undersecretary of state for political affairs, told the House International Relations Committee will be needed next year to staff a U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

That excludes construction of an embassy, which under some scenarios would cost another $1 billion.

Here's my question. Do we really need to spend $1B on an Iraqi embassy? Judging from current events I think we need to spend that money on development projects in West Virginia.

 

[JJMcKay]

gotta have some venue to keep an eye on all that oil i guess..

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

$1B does seem like a staggering amount of money for an embassy. I am not a contractor, but I find it hard to envision that kind of expense being justified, regardless of the fact that this will obviously have to be a highly secure facility.

 

[DealMonkey]

Biggest ... welfare state ... ever.

 

[klah]

Didn't the Ronald Reagan building cost $250,000,000?

And that is without the bullet-resistant windows, blast walls, underground bunker and $200,000/yr salaries these civilian contractors in Iraq are paid.

 

[BarneyFife]

Originally posted by: klah
Didn't the Ronald Reagan building cost $250,000,000?

And that is without the bullet-resistant windows, blast walls, underground bunker and $200,000/yr salaries these civilian contractors in Iraq are paid.

$200k * 5000 = 1 billion

Are their going to be those many workers? Those gigantic arenas cost $400 million. This is crazy.

 

[klah]

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