[Peace-discuss] Pentagon Making ‘Emergency Plan’ to Keep War Going

[E.Wayne Johnson]

It seems the only real long term way to fund the war machine is to create
a new crisis.  China doesnt seem to like the idea of the US picking a fight
with the DPRK, and afpak seems to be losing its zip as a crowd pleaser.

Iran looks like the most likely target.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
To: "peace discuss" <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 4:28 AM
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Pentagon Making ‘Emergency Plan’ to Keep War Going


[Warmongering presidents back to (at least) Lincoln have schemed to keep 
their
wars financed in the face of recalcitrant Congresses and the explicit 
provisions
of the Constitution (art. 1, sect. 8). I have no doubt Obama will do the 
same if
we force a Congressional cut-off of funds for the Mideast war, but it's 
still
the principal legal avenue available for stopping the war. Our own senators 
are
of course safe votes for war - Durbin may even become majority leader next 
year
- and the voters of Illinois are not offered a choice on the matter in the 
fall
election for senator: both major parties feature hacks who will support the 
war.
  Some democracy.  We can (and should) vote Green, but in the absence of a 
real
public debate on the matter we'll get a pro-war Republican or 
Democrat. --CGE]

Pentagon Making ‘Emergency Plan’ to Keep War Going
Without Additional Funds
Spokesman Warns Lack of Emergency Funds
'Extraordinarily Disruptive' [sic]
by Jason Ditz, July 14, 2010

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell says that the Defense Department is 
developing
an “emergency plan” to keep the Afghan and Iraq Wars going without the
additional funds the department has sought in the emergency war funding
supplemental, which still hasn’t passed

“Needless to say, all of this is extraordinarily disruptive to the 
department,”
Morrell insisted, “we’re sadly getting used to this fire drill.” [IT'S ABOUT
TIME TO SET THOSE ARCHAIC CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS ASIDE AND LET THE 
PRESIDENT
GET ON WITH HIS KILLING --CGE] The administration is seeking upwards of $33
billion in additional war funds in the emergency bill.

The House of Representatives passed war funding in a series of convoluted
procedural votes, but made changes to the Senate version, sending it back to 
the
Senate for reconciliation. The Senate has yet to debate the changes, but 
Sen.
Reid says he expects them to do so before the August recess.

Yet the Defense Department had initially sought it before the July 4 recess, 
and
Congressional leaders had said they expected to be able to deliver. Though 
in
practice much of Congress is unwilling to oppose additional war funding 
under
any circumstances, there have been a number of attempts to piggyback more 
and
more domestic spending on the war bill, andit has delayed the process 
considerably.

http://news.antiwar.com/2010/07/14/pentagon-making-emergency-plan-to-keep-war-going-without-additional-funds/
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