Pentagon is left scrambling to pay for war

jowey · 11-20-2007, 08:36 PM

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Washington - Congress's failure last week to agree whether and how to fund the war puts the onus on the Pentagon, at least for now, to find a way to cover expenses in Iraq, potentially forcing the Defense Department to close dozens of domestic military bases and imperil the livelihoods of tens of thousands of defense workers.

The congressional inaction may trigger Secretary Robert Gates to carry out his threat last week to furlough as many as 200,000 civil servants and defense contractors this winter, raising the stakes for Democratic lawmakers determined to tie war funding to a drawdown of US troops from Iraq.

Before lawmakers left town Friday for their Thanksgiving recess, they did approve the Pentagon's $470 billion base budget, but not a supplemental funding request to pay for war operations. Democrats don't want to fund that $189 billion defense request from President Bush unless the money is tied to deadlines, or at least goals, to bring the bulk of troops home from Iraq by the end of 2008.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1119/p02s01-usmi.html

jowey · 11-20-2007, 09:38 PM

The Pentagon is threatening mass layoffs and base closures to continue the war. This is removing the supporting infrastructure for your military.

Extortion....

jowey · 11-21-2007, 04:30 PM

I was concerned since this might affect our region, a coworker pointed out that restructuring has been in the works for some time.

So this spin may be a fire for effect to leverage the killing industry.

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