Bush, in Shift, Taps Into Emergency Iraq Funds

[Eye and Monkey]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-iraq-usa-funding.html

By REUTERS

Published: September 21, 2004

Filed at 9:09 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has begun tapping into its $25 billion emergency fund for the Iraq war to prepare for a major troop rotation and intense fighting this fall, administration officials said on Tuesday, despite the White House's initial insistence that it had enough money.

The Pentagon has already used more than $2 billion from what the White House dubbed its ``contingency reserve'' fund for Iraq. The money is being used to ramp up production of armored Humvees to support the troop rotation, as well as to buy body armor and bolster fuel supplies, the officials told Reuters.

The decision to use the $25 billion in Iraq reserves underscores concern within the administration about the rise in anti-American violence in Iraq. The decision follows last week's announcement that President Bush plans to divert nearly $3.5 billion from Iraqi water, power and other reconstruction projects to improve security. The White House had initially asserted it would not need additional war funding until January or February, 2005 -- well after the November presidential election.

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[baby_bear]

1. flip flop? mmmm, never mind. n/t

[jpgray]

2. No no, that's the Kerry media script

With Bush it's simply a shift.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

3. Not only that...

It's a firm decisive move by a strong resolute leader.

Gag.

[Eye and Monkey]

4. - who is creating high-paying American jobs (in corps such as Blackwater

and DynCorp, and CACI...)

[izzie]

5. I will be 6 feet under and you guys will be still hunting for the money

I am willing to bet this will go down as the biggest funding of money to corp. we have ever seen in our history. This will make the 1880 and those Robbers, look like chicken feed. Your children will be look at their homes like we do the one in Newport now.

[Moderator]

6. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=842912