31 ao\u00fbt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abWord that the White House plans to ask for an extra $50 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan came as a surprise to us, an aide to a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee said. At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Robert Gates had much the same reaction. That’s news to me, he told a deputy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAlthough members of Congress and Pentagon officials expected there would be a request for more money, they did not expect it to be for so much.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbPresident George W. Bush has already asked Congress for $147 billion to fund the wars in 2008. An extra $50 billion would push the total to $197 billion. War costs for 2007 total $173 billion, according to the Congressional Research Service.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe extra $50 billion likely signals Bush intends to maintain the surge of 30,000 extra troops in Iraq well into next spring, said P.J. Crowley, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe size of the new request isn’t surprising given the surge, said Crowley, a retired Air Force officer and special national security affairs assistant to President Bill Clinton. By every measure, more troops are there, equipment is being worn out or damaged faster than projected.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbSen. Robert Byrd, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said it was clear to him that the $147 billion request did not include the cost of the troop surge, but be called an additional $50 billion staggering. Congress must not continue to simply write blank checks for the misguided policy in Iraq, said Byrd, D-W.Va.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe House aide said the $50 billion sum, which was reported by The Washington Post and attributed to an unnamed White House official, might be an inflated trial balloon intended to make a smaller request seem more reasonable.<\/em>><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAt the Pentagon, spokesman Geoff Morrell called the $50 billion report premature. We certainly will not come to sort of finality on what, if any, additional money we would like to ask for until after Gen. David Petraeus reports to Congress Sept. 10, Morrell said.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tMais soyons s\u00e9rieux, la cause le demande. Cette annonce de la m\u00e9connaissance de ce nouvel afflux d’argent pour la guerre est tr\u00e8s caract\u00e9ristique de la situation. Le Pentagone n’est absolument pas au courant d’une d\u00e9cision qui le concerne directement. Il semble que cette d\u00e9cision, le montant d\u00e9cid\u00e9, etc., aient \u00e9t\u00e9 mis au point directement entre la Maison-Blanche et le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Petraeus, sans passer par la hi\u00e9rarchie, les d\u00e9partements, etc. C’est une illustration d’une situation marqu\u00e9e par une insularit\u00e9 g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, une fragmentation syst\u00e9matique du pouvoir. La Maison-Blanche ne traite plus qu’avec Petraeus pour les d\u00e9cisions que le pr\u00e9sident entend prendre pour l’Irak. Le Pentagone et le Congr\u00e8s sont compl\u00e8tement court-circuit\u00e9s. Mais le Washington Post<\/em> est inform\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Il faut dire que nous avons du mal \u00e0 suivre la valse irakienne des $milliards bushistes. Ce qui nous rassure et, m\u00eame, nous r\u00e9jouit, est que nous ne sommes pas les seuls. Prenez ces derniers $50 milliards pour l’Irak, dont nous avons fait une rapide mention, eh bien il s’av\u00e8re qu’il y a bien peu… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6991,6748,857,3194,6264],"class_list":["post-69179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-6991","tag-milliards","tag-irak","tag-pentagone","tag-petraeus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}