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それにしても、阿修羅のサーバーダウンは長かったですね。新記録では
ないでしょうか。といっても小生は今年始めからの参加なので昔の阿修羅
は知らないのですが、、。
皆さんはその間どうしていたのでしょうか。木村愛二さんなどはよくネ
ット禁断症状で病気にならなかったと思います。まずはご無事で何より。
９月３日の漫画でちょっと古いですが、、。
ブッシュの物乞い。【Steve Bell の漫画です。】
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,7371,1038512,00.html
09.09.03: George Bush's call for another $87bn for Iraq
will be president for food
食うためには大統領にならなければ、、
give generously or the dog gets it
お恵みを、さもないと飛びかかるよ
will blow everybody for $87billion
８７０億ドルのためなら、誰でも吹き飛ばすつもり、、。
Bush changes strategy with $87bn gamble
President calls for international community to take greater share of burden as
he asks Congress for huge sum to aid occupation
Oliver Burkeman and Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Tuesday September 9, 2003
The Guardian
The White House was facing intense criticism at home and a tepid response abroad
yesterday as George Bush attempted to recast the occupation of Iraq as a global
struggle requiring the support of the entire international community and a huge
injection of cash.
The president put his domestic popularity on the line in an address calling for
an $87bn (£55bn) increase in US spending on Iraq and Afghanistan that would
double the cost of the Iraqi operation.
In perhaps his most humbling moment since the campaign began, he also used the
nationally televised address on Sunday night to call for other countries to take
on a greater share of the burden.
"Terrorists in Iraq have attacked representatives of the civilised world, and
opposing them must be the cause of the civilised world," he said.
But it was unclear whether the change in strategy would pay off. Democrats in
Washington, bolstered by weekend polls showing the president's approval ratings
returning to pre-9/11 levels, accused Mr Bush of misleading the American people.
And while Britain announced a new commitment of troops - the result of a review
unconnected to the president's speech - several countries said they would wait
for a UN resolution first.
The $87bn that Mr Bush will ask Congress to authorise "amounts to more than 10
times more than the United States has ever spent in a year in any country," Paul
Bremer, head of the coalition provisional authority, said in Iraq yesterday.
"And it's a clear, dramatic illustration of the fact that the American people
are going to finish the job we started when we liberated Iraq some four months
ago."
The request would raise the cost of the Iraq war to the US to $150bn, dwarfing
the $9bn US contribution to the first 1991 Gulf war, and pushing the country's
budget deficit beyond half a trillion dollars. Members of Congress, though
likely to authorise the funds, are expected to demand that Mr Bush outline an
exit strategy for US troops first.
The president's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, defended the sum,
arguing that if Iraq were stabilised, "those costs will be won back over and
over again." Echoing Mr Bush's speech, she told CBS television that Iraq was the
main battlefield in the campaign against terror.
"What we are now seeing is a central battle in the war on terrorism, and these
terrorists know it. That is why they are going to Iraq."
Internationally, though, while France and Australia praised the president's
appeal to the world community, neither announced plans to review their decision
not to send peacekeeping forces. Greece and India said they would wait for a UN
decision.
Germany, a longtime opponent of the war, still had "no plans for military
engagement" in Iraq, a spokesman said.
The unprecedented size of the presidential request for funding suggests that
Washington may already be resigned to receiving little financial aid from other
countries, said Peter Galbraith, a former US ambassador and now a professor at
the National Defence University in Washington.
"The reality is that nobody is going to help the United States with significant
financial resources, with the obvious exception of Britain," he said.
Democratic presidential hopefuls, sensing a public mood in which criticism of
White House policy in Iraq is no longer vehemently condemned as inherently
unpatriotic, wasted no time in attacking Mr Bush's speech.
The $87bn figure, Bob Graham, a Florida senator, told CNN, was "more than the
federal government will spend on education this year," while Representative Dick
Gephardt said the speech showed that "the president has recognised that he has
been going down the wrong path".
Howard Dean, who is also seeking the Democratic nomination, compared the Iraq
conflict to Vietnam, accusing the government of "feeding misinformation to the
American people in order to justify an enormous commitment of US troops".
He added: "A 15-minute speech does not make up for 15 months of misleading the
American people on why we should go to war against Iraq, or 15 weeks of
mismanaging the reconstruction effort since we have been there."
Judith Kipper, an expert on the region at the Council on Foreign Relations, said
Mr Bush's address had changed the focus of American engagement, redefining Iraq
as a danger not because of weapons of mass destruction, or Saddam Hussein's
former regime, but because it was the centre of the war on terrorism. That meant
the White House could now argue that "we need help".
The question, she said, "is whether France, Germany and the other Europeans are
going to act like grown-ups. The international community is severely broken at
the moment, and we need to stick together."
The way the US had handled the occupation of Iraq meant that claims of a
terrorism problem connected to Iraq had become a self-fulfilling prophecy, Ms
Kipper argued. "Iraq is now a global threat. It was not before. But it is now."
How the bill breaks down
$66bn to fight war on terror in Iraq, Afghanistan "and elsewhere"
$21bn on reconstruction
Iraq
$51bn to support continuing military operations, including:
$800m on transport and support for non-US troops; $300m on body armour; $140m on
Humvees
Plus:
$20bn for reconstruction, including:
$5bn to train new Iraqi army and build judicial system
$15bn on infrastructure
Afghanistan
$11bn to help "track down terrorists and provide stability"
$800m for "critical remaining security and reconstruction needs"
Total bill $87bn
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