unbelievable. obama's "savings" due to lack of iraq surge until 2019!

[droski]

$1.6 trillion of which President Obama's budget director later admits is the "savings" of not continuing the surge in Iraq until 2019 -- 11 years after George Bush ended it, and eight years after even Bush would have had us out of Iraq completely.

washingtonpost.com

 

[vols4sure]

:cray:

This is some kind of change.

 

[dcgf05]

"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," said chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. "This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before."

I think that pretty much sums up the first 1.5 months of Obama's presidency, take advantage of down times to force your agenda on America.

 

[T-TownVol]

$1.6 trillion of which President Obama's budget director later admits is the "savings" of not continuing the surge in Iraq until 2019 -- 11 years after George Bush ended it, and eight years after even Bush would have had us out of Iraq completely.

washingtonpost.com

please remind me just how long he is going to be in office, worst case?