Save the USA

In googling for the last story, I found these two headlines side by side:

Senate Approves $50 Billion More For Wars
Oct 7, 2005

House Approves $50 billion in Social Cuts
Nov 19, 2005

I’m torn between trying to start a grassroots campaign to vote out these war-mongers, but I’d much prefer someone jumpstart this revolution by tackling and arresting Bush and Cheney, which would lead to massive, spontaneous celebrations around America and the world

Congress has funded almost $300 Billion for war in the last three years, passing two bills each in 2003 and 2005, none in 2004 (election year).

$79 B April 16,2003
$87 B Nov 6, 2003
$82 B May 10, 2005
$50 B Oct 7, 2005
$298 Billion Total

I just had to add this up because I keep seeing stories that refer to ‘nearly $200 Billion spent ‘ when it’s actually $300 Billion- and that’s not even counting the $400+ billion defense dept annual budget, or the $2.3 TRillion LOST by the Pentagon (first reported Sept 10, 2001). Looting America- that’s what they’re doing.

And now Murtha claims they’re going to ask for another $100 Billion early next year- since it’s an election year they’ll want to get that out of the way ASAP.

Fudging the numbers… something the defense dept did during vietnam, with money AND with casualties…. could they be fudging those numbers again? Perhaps bringing them all home would expose that lie, that’s why the new buzzword is “redeployment”.

Screw redeployment, we want them home, in recovery with full medical care. We need to demand from all 435 Congressmembers, bring ALL the troops home or else you will be replaced next November.

from this excellent article by Murray Waas:

“You can’t distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror,” President Bush said on September 25, 2002.

The next day, Rumsfeld said, “We have what we consider to be credible evidence that Al Qaeda leaders have sought contacts with Iraq who could help them acquire … weapons-of-mass-destruction capabilities.”

The most explosive of allegations came from Cheney, who said that September 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta, the pilot of the first plane to crash into the World Trade Center, had met in Prague, in the Czech Republic, with a senior Iraqi intelligence agent, Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, five months before the attacks. On December 9, 2001, Cheney said on NBC’s Meet the Press: “[I]t’s pretty well confirmed that [Atta] did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in [the Czech Republic] last April, several months before the attack.”

Cheney continued to make the charge, even after he was briefed, according to government records and officials, that both the CIA and the FBI discounted the possibility of such a meeting.

The CIA & the FBI told him it never happened- yet Cheney continued to make the claim, intentionally lying to America again and again. We don’t need no stinkin investigation, this liar should be impeached- now.