Afghaniwho?
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Apparently when the budgeteers on the Hill started working their way through the president's new budget they discovered there was no money, not even a line item, for humanitarian or reconstruction funds for Afghanistan. Remember, that was the place we weren't going to leave behind and so forth. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25098-2003Feb18.html Don't worry, this will never happen in Iraq.
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Apparently when the budgeteers on the Hill started working their way through the president's new budget they discovered there was no money, not even a line item, for humanitarian or reconstruction funds for Afghanistan. Remember, that was the place we weren't going to leave behind and so forth. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25098-2003Feb18.html Don't worry, this will never happen in Iraq.
There is also no mention of the upcoming war. it does not mean there will be no money spent on it. Though, why they aren't mentioned is still a little peculiar to me. BW "We get general information and specific information, but none of the specific information talks about time, place or methods or means..." - Tom Ridge - US Secretary of Homeland Security
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There is also no mention of the upcoming war. it does not mean there will be no money spent on it. Though, why they aren't mentioned is still a little peculiar to me. BW "We get general information and specific information, but none of the specific information talks about time, place or methods or means..." - Tom Ridge - US Secretary of Homeland Security
i read (don't know if it's same article) that they "didn't know how much they needed, so they didn't want to put down a figure". yeah, right.. :) -c
Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out. --Thomas Cardinal Wolsey
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i read (don't know if it's same article) that they "didn't know how much they needed, so they didn't want to put down a figure". yeah, right.. :) -c
Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out. --Thomas Cardinal Wolsey
Chris Losinger wrote: didn't know how much they needed That worse than them just not including it. :suss: Of course, the presidents budget proposal is purely political anyway, and has little to do with what gets signed later on. BW "We get general information and specific information, but none of the specific information talks about time, place or methods or means..." - Tom Ridge - US Secretary of Homeland Security
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Apparently when the budgeteers on the Hill started working their way through the president's new budget they discovered there was no money, not even a line item, for humanitarian or reconstruction funds for Afghanistan. Remember, that was the place we weren't going to leave behind and so forth. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25098-2003Feb18.html Don't worry, this will never happen in Iraq.
More info (this is the article that the WashingtonPost apparently references): The United States Congress has stepped in to find nearly $300m in humanitarian and reconstruction funds for Afghanistan after the Bush administration failed to request any money in the latest budget. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2759789.stm[^] ------------------------------------------ They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin In an encampment expecting daily attack from a powerful enemy, self-preservation is paramount to all law. - Thomas Jefferson