WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) -- When the Senate took $1.9 billion out of the war supplemental to fund border security last month, $1.6 billion came out of funds to replace equipment destroyed or worn out from four years of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The money was diverted at the behest of the White House in a last-minute bid to address growing political unrest about illegal immigration. The Office of Management and Budget championed the change without input from the Army or the Marine Corps whose budgets were sliced, a Pentagon budget official told United Press International last week.
'It was done in a 24-hour period, and presented as a fait accompli,' the official said.
The Senate accepted the offer 'without recognizing they were shorting the very people fighting the war,' the official said.
I cannot fathom how President Bush can have anything other than a 0% approval rating when we read about these kind of things.
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I think that any President who put troop safty "ahead of everything else" doesn't have an army but a cub scout den.
...oops....anyone see an "e" laying around?
Well, that's a fair thing to say, but I wasn't saying/meaning it literally as in "nothing can be more important than troop safety, and nothing can even be half as important as troop safety."
However, to actually take money from troops while they are overseas in hostile territory (and worse, give the money to fund (politically-motivated) border security) is pretty reprehensible.
This is especially true from a President who is a member of the Republican party which likes to point out how it is the Democrats who are most likely to do exactly such a thing. It refutes the whole Republican "we support our troops and the Democrats don't" mantra.
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