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 [TPR: The Public Record | In-Depth, Incisive, Independent Reporting] Senate Overwhelmingly Approves Bill to Fund Iraq War Until Mid-2009: “Although some of the factors behind the rapid increase in [Department of Defense] funding are known ”” the growing intensity of operations, additional force protection gear and equipment, substantial upgrades of equipment, converting units to modular configurations, and new funding to train and equip Iraqi security forces ”” these elements do not appear to be enough to explain the size of and continuation of increases. Although DOD included more extensive justification of its FY2007 and FY2008 supplemental requests, it still provides little explanation of how changes in force levels would affect funding levels,” the CRS report says.

 [Daylife - Topstories - World] US Congress passes new Iraq war funds approval: US Congress passes new Iraq war funds approval The US Senate has approved $161.8 billion in new funds to continue fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the next year. The bill was endorsed without any timetables for withdrawing .

[themillercircle.org] The National Conference for Media Reform Meeting 2008: iii) restrict corporate ownership of mass media so that more independent news organizations can be revived and iv) through activist demands, force the major news media to cover issues such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and global warming. The meeting was also attended by the two current members of the FCC who are in the Democratic column, Johnathan Adelstein and Michael Copps, who will be the new FCC chairman if Obama is elected President.

[The Braxtonian] Five Years: A sudden appetite for war with Iraq seems to have consumed the Bush administration and Congress. The debate that began in the Senate last week is centered not on the fundamental and monumental questions of whether and why the United .

 [Daylife - Topstories - World] US Senate approves war funds bill: Connections: US Senate US Congress George W. Bush US Democratic Party US Republican Party White House US House of Representatives Robert Byrd Richard .

 [Global News Blog Headlines] North America - WASHINGTON: Obama: Iraq war makes US, Israel less ...: The war in Iraq has made Iran stronger and the United States and Israel less secure, Democrat Barack Obama told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Obama tied his Republican opponent, John McCain, to the Bush administration’s Middle East policies, which Obama described as disastrous.

 [Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Note To Politicians: Quotes Can Come Back And Bite You: Yes, the same Ted Kennedy””may he soon be restored to full health””who would later claim that President Bush and his cronies cooked up the war in Iraq war on his ranch in Texas. But that accusation was probably just to distract us from the senator’s own part in stoking fears of a Saddam Hussein armed with WMD.

[Mind and Destiny] Old News: After retirement, he served as Colin Powell’s special envoy to the Middle East, before disagreements over the Iraq war and its probable aftermath caused him to resign. Zinni is quoted by Tom Clancy in "Battle Ready;" a segment entitled "The Obligation to Speak the Truth."

[The Pakistan Policy Blog] Democrats’ Letter to President Bush Calls for Refocusing Attention ...: The current Iraq strategy has no discernible end in sight and requires the United States to spend additional hundreds of billions of dollars despite urgent national needs in education, health care, and infrastructure improvement, and when high oil prices have provided the Iraqi government with billions in additional revenue that could pay for their own redevelopment and security. This strategy is neither sustainable nor in our broader national security or economic interest.

[Spin Cycle] Weekend super action: Byrd makes it 7-3, Obama: "As people all across this great nation know, I have been one of the most outspoken opponents of the Bush administration's misguided war in Iraq and its saber rattling around the globe...Barack Obama is a noble-hearted patriot and humble Christian, and he has my full faith and support."

 [The Gavel] Senior Democrats, in Letter to Bush, Outline Strategy to Change ...: ”” Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and senior Democrats sent a letter to President Bush today urging him to change strategy in Iraq in order to repair the grave damage the war has caused to our nation’s security. The letter asks President Bush to seek political reconciliation among Iraqi leaders;

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