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[Bluestem Prairie: news about Tim Walz (MN-1)] Post-Bulletin: Pay up, Walz tells Iraq government: As you know, with theamount of money that we have spent in Iraq, we could fund virtuallyevery emergency domestic priority in this country, as well as fullyfund the war against terrorism in Afghanistan. As new Members ofCongress, we hope to be able to return to our districts with news thatCongress is asking the Iraqi government to stand up for itself.
[Redstate - Conservative News and Community] I think that I need to have the Netroots clarify something for me.: Hence the split: the Members of Congress who are pretending to be most outraged over the issue will be able to pretend to vote their consciences, it'll get tossed, and all that will be left is the lovely, lovely pork - which will hopefully get vetoed by the President, letting the Democrats go through the motions of trying to make political hay from it.
[The Swamp] War confrontation in the House, again: "We will address what we have consistently addressed, and that is a desire by Democrats, reflecting, we believe, the overwhelming desire of the American public, 60-percent-plus, for a change in the course that we have been pursuing in Afghanistan and Iraq," said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, describing the bill that could hit the House floor as early as Thursday.
[News portal: politics best aggregator of the net] I think that I need to have the Netroots clarify something for me.: Obama's the inevitable nominee, yes, yes, the GOP is doomed, yadda, yadda, the Democrats are going to take the White House, consolidate Congress, cut and run from Iraq, start war crimes trials against the Bush administration, etcetera, .
[Newscoma] National Priorities Project Calculates Local Costs: According to the National Priorities Project, the Iraq War has cost the State of Tennessee over $8 billion ($1 billion = $1000 million). President Bush’s new funding request for 08-09 will cost the Volunteer State over $2 billion, which according to NPP would buy Tennessee 21,714 afforable housing units, 41,906 elementary school teachers, or health care coverage for 435,808 adults.
[YubaNet.com] Cost of Iraq War Based on President's New Request: "Once again, Congress must decide whether it's going to write a blank check to continue this failed war or whether it's going to require some accountability to bring it to an end," said Greg Speeter, spokesperson for the National Priorities Project. "Voters have made clear that the loss of lives and dollars must stop and now is the time for Congress to show they're listening."
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[New World Order 101] Permanent Wars for Oil and Permanent Terrorism: This was the foundation for a relatively high standard of living in Iraq, which had one of the best health care systems in the region and was producing more Ph.D.s per capita than the U.S. It is this prosperity and this wealth that are being destroyed by the Bush-Cheney administration. Under their military occupation of Iraq and the contemplated oil arrangements, much of Iraqi oil production and oil revenues would fall under the control of foreign oil companies, mainly American and British [Exxon/Mobil, Chevron/Texaco, BP/Amoco, and Royal Dutch/Shell].
[The Carpetbagger Report] McCain continues to shift with the wind: McCain said before the war in Iraq, “We will win this conflict. We will win it easily.” Four years later, McCain said he knew all along that the war in Iraq war was “probably going to be long and hard and tough.” .
[NONE SO BLIND - BLOG] The Abominable Debate and What It Showed about the Media: Frank ...: Obama is with “ordinary Americans,” many Americans, ordinary and not, have concluded that the talking heads blathering about blue-collar men, religion, guns and those incomprehensible “YouTube young people” are even more condescending and out of touch. When a Washington doyenne like Mary Matalin, freighted with jewelry, starts railing about elitists on “Meet the Press,” as she did last Sunday, it’s pure farce.
[Joejolly's Weblog] The Dumbest War America Ever Fought?: “And there was no American general that I could ”¦ establish who was given the accountable responsibility to make sure that the first duty of any government - and we were the government - was to keep law and order on the streets. There was a vacuum from the beginning in which looters, saboteurs, the criminals, the insurgents moved very quickly.”…
[The Swamp] War confrontation in the House, again: House Democrats have developed an emergency war spending bill that includes all the money President Bush has asked for, and much that he didn't, including spending on domestic programs that he has told Congress to leave out. The $170 billion legislation would also require the president to pull combat troops out of Iraq by the end of next year - a timetable of the sort Bush has already vetoed.
[The Hanscom Family Weblog] Nothing Is Too Good For Our Boys In The Trenches!!!: The report comes amid renewed scrutiny of the Bush administration’s efforts in treating veterans with traumatic brain injury, which in its mild form is known as a concussion, as well as post-traumatic stress disorder in light of a prolonged Iraq war. As many as 20 percent of U.S. combat troops who fought in Iraq or Afghanistan are believed to leave with signs of possible brain injury, an Army task force has said.
[Just Foreign Policy News] Just Foreign Policy News, May 6, 2008: Michael Gordon, the military writer for The New York Times who contributed several false stories about Iraqi WMD in the runup to the U.S. attack on Iraq in 2002, has written several articles in the past year about Iran’s alleged training of Iraqi insurgents - or supplying them with weapons to kill Americans. He produced another major report on this subject for today’s Times - based solely on unnamed sources - which is at odds with an account from McClatchy’s Baghdad bureau.
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