BREAKING: Bush escalation will be 21,500 troops and cost $6.8 billion

[RedEarth]

BREAKING: Bush escalation will cost $6.8 billion.NBC News reports that President Bush will announce an escalation of 21,500 troops — 17,500 to Baghdad and 4,000 to Anbar province. The cost of the new strategy will be $6.8 billion.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/10/breaking-bush-escalation-will-cost-68-billion/

....more lives ruined andd more families torn apart........ all a result of your lies...........

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Yeah, right. $6.8 billion (per week) is more like it. n/t

[RedEarth]

18. $6.8 billion seems real low to me too.... must be republican math

[Deep13]

2. Yeah? He had better write a check. nt

[opihimoimoi]

3. more like 25 BILLION.....I don't trust his numbers anymore...oops, never did...

[Rosemary2205]

4. $6.8 Billion my ass..........

Obviously more of KKKarl Rove's "math".

[LeftCoast]

5. Where are those troops coming from?

Is he just making the soldiers there stay even longer?

[Deep13]

7. He will grow them from ants the way Apollo did with the myrmidons.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

8. I'm sure there will be a "surge" in enlistment after Smirk's SOTU...

this evening. Freedom-loving Americans will be so inspired they'll march right on down to their nearest enlistment office bright and early tomorrow am!

[LeftCoast]

19. Lead by young college republicans, no doubt!

LOL - like that's ever going to happen! :rofl:

[WorseBeforeBetter]

21. I'm sure "the troops" would love a bunch of soft, coddled frat boys...

fighting alongside them, but I guess desperate times call for desperate measures. I really cannot wait to hear the "analysis" tomorrow. Will the right-wing blowhards be calling on their fellow citizens to sign up? Share the burden? Make the sacrifice? Yeah, right!

[americanstranger]

10. Extending tours of duty for soldiers and Marines

by 3 to 4 months. They'll also call up additional Guard and Reserve units.

Those poor kids. They gotta be so tired of this shit. So tired, period.

And everyone better pray to their fave diety that another natural disaster doesn't happen in this country. It'll be Katrina all over again, because we won't have any NG to deal with it.

This is a fucking hare-brained plan, failure after failure.

Impeach him. Impeach them all.

- as

[LeftCoast]

20. Is there any legal limit to how many times these guys can be called up?

I'd heard some people are on going on their 4th tour. Could be wrong about that though.

[Rosemary2205]

15. Pentagon says it has to screw the soldiers to get that many

Sorry I didn't save the link. I read that the Pentagon says the maximum it can muster and still stay within it's own deployment rules is 9000. To get more they would have to basically screw the troops to do it.

[whistle]

6. $6.8 billion is only the start, as usual low balling estimates over selling

....effectiveness, expect that cost to be tens times that number. Congress really must IMPEACH Bush/Cheney now!

[Blue_Roses]

9. this is so ridiculous

what a jerk

[GOTV]

11. Will he be announcing new taxes to pay for it? n/t

[malaise]

12. This too will fail

no need for any excitement.

[shanti]

13. and you know where that $6.8 billion will eventually

end up.....:eyes: this whole sham of a pResidency is all about the benjamins for he and his own (the pnac'ers).

[AndyA]

14. OK Congress: DO YOUR JOB!

Tell Bush NO.

He must pay first. He must explain where the money is coming from.

He must present a plan to succeed, not just more troops on top of more troops.

He must be held accountable for his actions up to this point.

INVESTIGATE. IMPEACH. INCARCERATE!

[The_Casual_Observer]

16. He say 21,500, I say 50,000+

He say 6.8, I say 68+

He lie all the time, me no trust.

[ewagner]

17. 4000 to Anbar Province????

Isn't that the previously "pacified" Fallujah?

:wtf:

[Hubert Flottz]

22. And Now the GOP suck asses are on TV saying that the 21,500

is just the first phase of the build-up. If the Generals say they need more troops, Bush will whip them up out of thin air and ship them over, at our expense.(I feel a draft)

[dogday]

23. Is the 6.8 billion the travel price tag

to move these troops in? I don't quite understand that figure...