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>Senate Passes Pentagon Budget, War Funding Bill As >Tally For Afghanistan And Iraq Hits $1T > >(AP) As President Barack Obama weighs major shifts in >strategy in the deteriorating mission in Afghanistan, >the Senate on Tuesday passed a bill bringing the total >U.S. tab for that war to about $300 billion. > >The $626 billion measure, passed 93-7, also would ban >outright any transfer of accused enemy combatants from >the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility into the >United States. Current law permits transfer of >detainees to face trial or go to prison. > >The underlying bill combines $128 billion for overseas >military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan with $498 >billion for the rest of the Defense Department's >budget. An analysis by congressional researchers puts >the tally for Afghanistan at about $300 billion and >for Iraq at more than $700 billion since Sept. 11, >2001 _ totaling more than $1 trillion. > >This winter, Obama approved 21,000 more troops to >Afghanistan, which would bring the total number of >U.S. forces there to 68,000 by the end of the year. >The Pentagon bill approved Tuesday funds that >deployment.

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