Lex et Libertas—Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for the editors and staff. Please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm’s way around the world, and for their families, especially those of our fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who have died in defense of American liberty while prosecuting the war with Jihadistan.
They will need all of our prayers if Congress does not release the funds earmarked for the men and women in harms way!
Do not believe the Democrats when they say they are for the troops, but not Bush's war! The war is the troops war. They have to face a hostile, fanatical enemy with a terrorist mind, and anyone who does anything to block all the money these brave men and women need to fight is an enemy of the troops. It is just that simple.
As long as the troops are in harms way, they need all the money this country can give them to get them home alive. Nothing else is more important!But apparently the Democrat controled Congress doesn't feel they need to support our troops. They have delayed the appropriations bill as I have mentioned in previous blogs, and now they are being asked by the Defense Department to release funds that are earmarked for the troops before they run out of money.
The following is a quote from TheNewMedia web site.
"The Pentagon has asked Congress for the authorization to borrow and transfer $9.7 billion from various accounts to pay for war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The so-called reprogramming request is necessary because a new war supplemental funding bill is still pending in Congress, the Department of Defense stated.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told the Senate last week that, if Congress did not approve the remainder of the 2008 war supplemental, he would submit a reprogramming request — taking money from less pressing accounts to front war costs — on May 27 to avoid depletion of the Army’s personnel and operations funds. The Pentagon submitted two reprogramming requests to Congress on Tuesday: One would transfer $5.7 billion from the military personnel accounts of the other services to the Army’s military personnel account; the second would transfer $4 billion from the operation and maintenance accounts of the other services and the Department of Defense Working Capital Fund to the Army and Special Operations Command operations and maintenance accounts.
Without the ability to transfer these funds, the Army will run out of military personnel funds necessary to pay its soldiers by June 15, according to the Pentagon. In order to avoid that, Congress would have to approve the reprogramming requests by June 9, according to the Pentagon".
For the troops sake write, call, fax or email all your members of Congress and Senators, and demand that they release the funds for the warriors in Iraq and Afganistan.
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