Posted on 08/30/2013 3:46:31 PM PDT by Perdogg
The U.S. military, struggling after defense cuts of tens of billions of dollars, will be unable to pay for attacks on Syria from current operating funds and must seek additional money from Congress, according to congressional aides.
President Barack Obama, meanwhile, said on Friday he has not made a final decision on a military strike against Syria. He sought to play down both the scope and duration of the anticipated punitive missile and bombing campaign.
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America is in worse fiscal shape than Detroit.
Do you suppose 0 is doing this to break the budget and get unlimited funds for his junk?
LMAO! Obama is such a joke. The world must be laughing its ass off at him.
And if Congress says “yes”, they own the war.
It will be very interesting if someone in the chain refuses an illegal order.
VERY interesting.
What about obama’s stash?
Mike Rogers has already said he thinks the president has the facts on his side.
They just can’t wait to grab some blame for themselves.
Didn’t they accuse W of putting the wars on the credit card?
If Obummer and his tenure as president wasn’t so pathetic this would be laughable but only the rest of the world is laughing.
“...and must seek additional money from Congress”, or from obama’s stash.
They need more money to become al Qaeda’s Air Force
after al Qaeda bombed them into submission.
Setting up for blaming the sequester
Maybe they’ll put on a big performance to raise funds.
Obama was heard to say after the news: “ Oh crimminey, and I really, really wanted to bomb something over there real bad too”
It is not clear from the article exactly who set up the “Congressional aide” to carry their message. We can be sure it is not an accident.
We know the Democrats would never do that as part of creating an excuse for Obama to do what he does best: nothing. And second best: blaming others for his failures.
America can’t afford to stop other people from being themselves. Arab oil states can hire mercenaries to intervene in Syria; oh, wait — the ones with money don’t want Al Qaeda in power next door.
Congress owns the purse strings, so they can say no. I hope they do.
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