Plan B, dump it on his successor
January 24th, 2008 by Sonny
How long will I, my child and grandchildren be paying for the worst security and foreign policy error in American history. Bush doesn’t care as long has he can leave office and dump the mess on whoever wins the White House in November. Whatever happened to the idea that Iraq would pay for itself? Disappeared with those weapons of mass destruction…
Bush budget won’t fully fund Iraq war - David Rogers - Politico.com
The White House confirmed Wednesday that its new budget next month will not request a full year’s funding for the war in Iraq, leaving the next president and Congress to confront major cost questions soon after taking office in 2009.The decision reverses the administration’s stance of just a year ago, when President Bush’s budget made a point of spelling out in advance what he thought the costs would be for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for 2008. By comparison, the new budget, to be unveiled Feb. 4, requests only incremental “bridge” funding into 2009 and won’t sustain the military through the full length of the fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, 2009.
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