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

[C. G. Estabrook]

Like Lincoln's general, Obama's seems determined to fight it out on this line if 
it takes all summer - and next year, and next...  Iran is in reserve, if they 
need a new opponent to keep the game going.


On 7/15/10 3:46 PM, E.Wayne Johnson wrote:
> 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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