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[WillYourVoteBCounted]

Vote Republican or Halliburton will have to scrimp

The Military needs $160 billion extra to cover war costs, but Rumsfeld is being "Mumsfeld" and wants to wait until after the election to tell Daddy Bush that Halliburton wants their allowance raised. Posted at www.govexec.com

Military services seek $160 billion extra to cover war costs
By Megan Scully, CongressDaily

The military services and defense agencies have requested as much as $160 billion in supplemental spending for the remainder of fiscal 2007 -- a staggering figure that would bring wartime costs this year to $230 billion, defense sources said Friday.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has not yet approved the requests and does not plan to make a final decision until Nov. 15, one week after the midterm congressional elections. But should Rumsfeld sign off on the proposals, a move that defense analysts consider highly doubtful, it would double wartime expenditures from last year's totals.

The services' requests, first reported by InsideDefense.com, also would make total fiscal 2007 supplemental spending equal to more than half of the regular fiscal 2007 defense budget. The Army and Air Force requested $80 billion and $50 billion, respectively, for the last half of fiscal 2007, sources told CongressDaily. The Navy and Marine Corps appear to have submitted smaller requests.

Full story: www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=35406&dcn=e_gvet

[elocs]

1. One question:

Why would you put "Vote Republican" as the title of your original post of this thread?

[liberaldemocrat7]

2. "A Hell of a burden - Halliburton"

How does that look for a saying.

[elocs]

4. "Vote Republican or Halliburton will have to scrimp"

would have been better, in my opinion. The "Vote Republican" seems to be a come-on to read a post on a Democratic forum and a red flag to get you to look at it.

[NMMNG]

3. It sure gets attention

:shrug:

[AtomicKitten]

5. I thought this was a quote from Duncan Hunter.

On CNN he said, "Remember John Kerry's words and vote Republican."
Assclown.