Poor SF is going to think he’s high when he reads this! Welcome to Politics.
House Democrats are pushing to add billions of dollars to President Bush’s $93.4 billion request for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, including $900 million for troops suffering from brain injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder.
An additional $2.5 billion would go to strengthen training and readiness for forces not deployed in war zones, and $1.4 billion would go to address housing allowance shortfalls:
The Democratic add-ons for military health care, readiness and mine-resistant vehicles are aimed in part at making the bill more attractive to lawmakers, including Republicans who might be considering voting against the measure over language that would curb deployments of troops to Iraq who have had insufficient rest or training or who already had served there for more than a year.
Now keep in mind, Murtha is the Porkmeister! God only knows what is included in that package!
Allahpundit has much more!
What’s the problem? I thought we all want to support the troops? Seems like actually providing funding goes a helluva lot further than than sticky a yellow chinese-made ribbon on the back ones Lexus SUV.
It’s about time congress stopped short-changing troop needs, be they before, during, or AFTER deployment!
TT- I do support the funds, the jab was at SF for a conversation we had earlier…He claimed that the Democrats are “this” close to forcing an end to the war and that there would be legislation on the table in the coming weeks to stop additional funds…the jabs were in good humor to him as I told him that he has no more of a chance of this war being ended by the democrats than I do of getting that fence…
I am serious about the pork though…I am going to keep up with the actual package to see just how much waste was tacked on..
Sorry for the confusion.