When Congress had a different story on debt

This is how we got into the mess we were in. Wars were supposed to be important enough to pay for as well as plan. "If this was is important enough to fight then it ought to be important enough to pay for." (5:38) If we don't learn from the past then yep, we repeat it and let them just get away with it.

Iraq War Funding
Oct 2, 2007
U.S. Capitol
House Radio and Television Gallery

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey, Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John Murtha, and Rules Committee Vice Chairman James McGovern spoke to the press conference about war funding and the nearly $200 billion that the White House is expected to request for the next year. They also answered questions from reporters.

From 2007 when this came out the lives lost in Iraq

2007 904
2008 314
2009 149
2010 60
2011 54
2012 1
Total 4486

You have to listen to this speech of when Congress was tied up in 2007 too
President Bush Urges Congress to Pass Appropriations Bills (2007)


Tammy Duckworth talks about long wait to see a VA doctor as well as how the DOD and the VA were supposed to be sharing records. Yep, all that back then too.


We can keep pretending all we want that all of this is new, but none of it is. Veterans wait, congress keeps playing games and nothing changes no matter who the President is.