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Bush is caught LYING TO THE PUBLIC about the numbers of troops and the costs of “The Surge”
Excerpted verbatim (emphasis added by me) from a FOX NEWS article at:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,249718,00.html
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While the Senate debates its support for the troops heading to Iraq, the number of forces could be more than stated by the president, according to a report released Thursday by the Congressional Budget Office.
[ Read the report itself (.pdf) at http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=7778&sequence=0 ]
The CBO took a look at the president's call to send an additional 20,000 combat troops into Iraq and concluded that the number does not include an additional 15,000 to 28,000 military support personnel that usually accompany combat brigades. Support forces are made up of headquarters, medical and communications staff, military police, contractors, engineers, intelligence workers and others, the report reads.
The current combat/support ratio for the 15 military brigades stationed in Iraq is about 5,500 support personnel to 4,000 combat troops, the report states. However, military officials told CBO that "it will be both possible and desirable to deploy fewer additional support units." Using that guidance, the CBO then estimated the number to be about 3,000 support personnel per brigade.
The report, requested by Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C., chairman of the House Budget Committee, found that at the lower, 3,000 support staff level, a four-month deployment would cost an additional $9 billion. A 12-month deployment of that number would cost an additional $20 billion and two-year deployment would cost an additional $26 billion.
At the higher staffing level of 5,500 support staff, a four-, 12- and 24-month deployment would cost $13 billion, $27 billion or $49 billion, respectively, the CBO estimated.
Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Brian Maka would not comment on the CBO's accuracy.
"We just received the report.. ... It's premature to say anything about a report we just saw," Maka said.
But Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., said the report is another disturbing estimate of the overall cost of the war in Iraq.
"What the CBO found concerns me. ... The cost of the troop increase could be significantly higher than what the administration has been saying in the press," said Skelton, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
"If the president proceeds with his plan, thousands more U.S. troops will be at risk, billions more dollars will be required, and there will be a much more severe impact on our military's readiness," added House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in a written statement.
Separately, FOX News learned that President Bush will ask Congress for more than $700 billion in defense spending in his upcoming federal budget for fiscal year 2008, being sent to Congress on Monday.
A U.S. official said the request will include more than $481 billion to fund Pentagon operations for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, a nearly 11 percent, or $46 billion increase over last year's approved level. Combined with that will be an emergency supplemental request for $234 billion to fight the global War on Terror. That will pay for war costs through much of the rest of this year as well as into 2008, the official said.
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Re: Bush is caught LYING TO THE PUBLIC about the numbers of troops and the costs of “The Surge”
So now, a bit more of the truth comes out of the other side of Bush’s mouth, in his continued practice of openly hoodwinking the American Public while secretly keeping the “Israel-warm” Congress apprised of his full plans (and vice versa), in his knowledge that this congress certainly will provide whatever funding and allow whatever numbers of more troops that he “requests,” since their common ultimate goal is to serve the overriding interests of Israel, in the so-called “War on Terrorism” that intimately involves the American Military’s invasions and occupations of nations that are Israel’s “traditional enemies” and “current threats”.
Read on.
Joseph
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-bushsurge12mar12,0,172807.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Bush confirms troop escalation plans
By Maura Reynolds
Times Staff Writer
6:39 PM PDT, March 11, 2007
BOGOTA, Colombia — President Bush confirmed Sunday that he will be sending thousands of new support troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, above and beyond the previously announced "surge" of 21,500 combat troops.
At a news conference in Colombia, Bush said an increase in support troops for Iraq was anticipated from the start, and his initial figure referred just to combat troops.
"Those combat troops are going to need some support," Bush said. "And that's what the American people are seeing in terms of Iraq, the support troops necessary to help the reinforcements do their job. My hope, of course, is that Congress provides the funding necessary for the combat troops to be able to do their job, without any strings attached."
Late Saturday, while in Uruguay, the White House released the text of a request from Bush to Congress to provide funding for the additional support troops, including a previously unannounced boost of 3,500 troops for Afghanistan. Those troops would be in addition to the president's decision to extend the deployment of a 3,200-member brigade combat team in Afghanistan.
National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said the $3.2 billion requested in the letter would pay for the 3,500 troops for Afghanistan, as well as an Iraq deployment of 2,400 combat support troops, 2,200 military police and 129 troops for provincial reconstruction teams.
"In terms of Afghanistan, I did announce, as a result of a review of our policy, an additional 3,200 troops," Bush explained during the news conference. "But in addition to that, the troops that you're referring to are going to be part of a training and embedding mission that I did also discuss during that strategy, although I didn't have any details of the troops."
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