why is pres bush spending our hard erned tax money in iraq?
90649
He believes that as president he is exempt from laws and ethics.  He doesn't like Iraq and he likes war, so he decided to invade.\n\n\n\n>>>It probably costs far less in the long run to stop terrorist \n>>>extremists in their tracks now\n\nIf there were any evidence that Iraq had any ties to the 9/11 terrorists, I'd agree with you.  As the terrorists were primarily Saudi, I fail to see the logic.  All our invasion of Iraq is doing by way of terrorism is fueling the very resentment that lead to the attacks in the first place.
885339
Because the government funds enough private citizens (welfare) without needing to spend more.  There is no money to spend anymore...it doesn't grow on some tree behind The White House last time I checked, so as taxpayers, do I want to pay?  Heck no!!!!
1151376
George Bush is a politician if his lips are moving he is telling a lie,taxes are high because the Democrats are over taxing us
350898
Bush is spending our country into bankruptcy.\n\nGovernment spending has grown nearly 29% over the last four years.\n\nThe Bush administration has spent money twice as fast Clinton. (7.6% vs. 3.4%)\n\nFighting the Al Quaeda terrorists costs money, but the fiscally responsible solution is to cut back low priority government spending.\n\nPork-barrel Republicans in Congress have increased nondefense discretionary spending at a record rate of 36%. Bush has yet to veto one pork-barrel spending bill.\n\nIn just 4 years, the Bush administration has increased nondefense discretionary spending by 1/3 more than the Clinton administration did in 8 years.\n\nThe government’s 2.4 trillion dollar budget means government is now spending more than $20,000 dollars for every family in America.\n\nOut of control spending is causing deficits and government debt to balloon, mortgaging our future and the futures of our children and grandchildren with total liabilities of nearly $40 trillion dollars.\n\nThe Bush administration claims that it will run a $500 billion deficit. .\n\nThe Bush administration continues to use phony accounting to cover up how the government raids social security to pay for pork barrel spending. The true deficit to be over $700 billion dollars per year.\n\nThe total national debt, including what is owed to social security, has reached a record breaking level of $7 trillion.\n\nIf Bush is reelected and continues to borrow and spend, it will pass $10 trillion!\n\nThat will add to the national debt-a debt we are already paying over $200 billion in interest each year.\n\nThe long run problems are worse. The unfunded liabilities in Social Security and Medicare are over $30 trillion dollars.\n\nBush’s prescription medicare benefit has put an already bankrupt program even deeper into the hole.
638976
100 cents - use good sense and spend them all well after Bush not much makes sense!!!!
550693
Because when it comes to energy, you get it from where ever you can as cheaply as you can.  This is why Bush invaded Iraq after all.  So he can have cheap oil for his Families Oil Companies, so they can sell the oil products to Americans at high prices and become even richer and more powerful than they already are!
751857
Bush has requested Billions of dollars in funds for Iraq sometime ago. Most of those funds went to the military. I guess Gordon Brown wanted a fund program that is more specific to Iraq's economy.
789487
lets rememeber that he has spent more $ during his presidency than all other presidents combined!
616559
Because we are paying a very great deal for a war going on in two different countries. Afghanistan and Iraq.
1152192
The United States is running a huge balance of payments deficit by spending more overseas than it exports, which I take it includes its expenditure in Iraq. Also, all Governments borrow and presumably Bush is mortgaging the United States' future.\n\nAs an Englishman I am all too conscious that the United Kingdom's power in the world was ruined by its debt funded expenditure on the First and Second World Wars. The Cambridge historian Correlli Barnett wrote a series of books (e.g. "Audit of War") to point out that in the end there is no point in exercising miltary power at the expense of capital investment.
382552
because we give 3rd world countries tons of money all the time. we give isreal 100 million dollars a year for weapons protection and materials
265641
they using all social security for war issue thats why if bush bring are troops home we will have alot of money for ss
444620
WHEN YOU HAVE WAR MONGERING PROFITEERS, YOU WILL HAVE WAR!!  THERE'S TOO MUCH MONEY IN IT FOR THEMSELVES NOT TO PILLAGE AND PLUNDER THE AMERICAN TAX PAYERS FOR IT.
1086252
HE hasn't spent a dime on those things..... \n\nHE USES OUR MONEY!\n\nIts harder to trace that way.
929104
Of-course he should - but he won't!  The help the government are giving those cheated out of their pensions is pitiful and many fall outside even this abortion of a "help plan".  As for Iraq before you invest money in the country you have to have peace and you certainly just don't hand over 100 million to politicians it will go straight in their pockets.  The man is an idiot!!
384291
Actually no, the troops are fighting for Bush's wallet. The troops are out there putting thier lives on the line and following orders. They are amazing and should be commended & supported 100%. Unfortunately the commander in chief is an idiot & a liar. This war isn't about freedom. It's about big business. Pretty much everything Bush & Cheney set into motion is about profiteering. Haliburton isn't even supplying the troops with so much as clean water. They've been drinking contaminated water for Christs sake! Most of them still don't get the sufficient armor they need & they're getting billed for it. The pentagon just released a report that there's less than 1 batallion of Iraqi troops able to defend themselves without the Americans. This iraq war is never going to end. Bush & Cheney have no interest in it ending. It will go on forever & they will continue to laugh all the way to the bank. Americans are not asked to make even the slightest sacrifice. Keep pissing away resources while our soldiers die every day. The 9 - 11 attackers are still out there and Bush has no interest in getting them. Why would he want to take out his long time business partner Bin Laden?
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They are working but the revenues are currently going to the Iraqi govt.  They better provide us with some free juice though for the $$$$$$$ we are spending to rebuild their crappy country.