this telegraph has got the leaked memos, very very amusin'.. second memo to blair "bush is grateful, has noted he is getting flak", and, as was recognised, "has to manage [sic] a press, parliament and public opinion that is very different than anything in the states"
on a related note-
With $50bn already authorised, the new request would take the total of supplemental military spending to $120bn for 2006.
In a separate move, the administration will ask for a 5 per cent increase in the Pentagon's budget. This budget request includes more than $80bn to be spent on weapons systems and means the annual total budget request for the Pentagon will be $439.3bn.
gearing up for (yet more!) murder
Mr Whitman said the extra $70bn is on top of $320bn spent since 2001 to fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said the cost of US military operations - not including the purchase of new equipment - was running at $4.5bn a month in Iraq and $800m in Afghanistan.
Mr Whitman said the extra $70bn is on top of $320bn spent since 2001 to fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said the cost of US military operations - not including the purchase of new equipment - was running at $4.5bn a month in Iraq and $800m in Afghanistan.
boycott the us dollar!!
an imperial economy depends on drawing wealth from abroad, without any reciprocity..
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