Obama seeks $205 billion for wars!!

just another couple billions..no biggie

Hi. I'd hate to break it to you guys, but 'bringing the troops home' and 'ending the war' is not free. Transport, rehabilitation, medical care, psychiatric care, retirement, salaries, and a million other things are expensive and are all related to ending the war.

Short from totally abolishing our military, this price tag will always exist and always be in the hundreds of billions. This is actually an incredibly modest budget for war-time spending.

In addition to the regular Pentagon budget? Damn! That sounds like a lot more than the $10Billion a month that Bush was spending. Through the end of 2010? I thought we were to be out of Iraq at least by August. Who's the damn liar? Obama

as for the war, as much as i hate the idea of invading other lands and sticking our noses in other peoples business, having a brother in law over in iraq, i cannot deny the good changes he has seen since his first tour (on his third), i just hope it lasts once we leave... everyone deserves the same type of freedom we take for granted, no matter why we went in the beginning, we must hope good will come from it

I think you miss the point, lovelander, dont concentrate on the end being communism, but rather socialism with an eventuality of capitalism again, people need to realize that economies, political power and just about everything in history run in cycles, ebbs and flows the one thing that changes are details/coverage. Once things are stable again, we will forget about these 10 years (in my guess) of tough financial times and go back to capitalistic ways, so socialism is just a turn to more regulation

It is time for the people to make a stand and stop this expensive and unethical war. I was listening to a retired FBI agent last night about many of the Cultures in the Eastern Hemisphere and war it is just a lost, lost cause. We must change this stupid, costly idea of invading other cultures and nations by force. Just recall all the lives that USA lost in this war in Iraq. Do it everyday. Bring the movies and photos of all the dead soldiers to this "Boujoua" couch potato numb part of American that are fascinated themselves more with visual distractions and brain dead TV programms than the value of human lives.

I used to think billion was a big number. They use it so casually now.

People REALLY need to take notice of what is going on, not just with this little tidbit, but everything that is currently happening....

“Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.”

- Karl Marx, 1867, Das Kapital

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..............................

What happened here?......Hmmmm, I thought he wanted to bring the Troops home, and end the war. You can walk the walk, but I guess money will always talk in certain sectors.