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Date Posted: 23:29:41 10/13/09 Tue
Author: SC
Subject: Dems pass more funding for the wars they call illegal

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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Re: Dems pass more funding for the wars they call illegal -- Bob, 19:12:49 10/14/09 Wed
- So the war isnt illegal than. As they claimed all those years -- SC, 23:25:36 10/14/09 Wed
  - So the war isn't.... -- Bob, 16:01:30 10/15/09 Thu
    - Congress was not misled. They are lying -- SC, 18:37:22 10/15/09 Thu
      - Re: Congress was not misled. They are lying -- Bob, 03:42:29 10/16/09 Fri
        Have fun talking to yourself -- SC, 12:38:58 10/17/09 Sat
        Re: Have fun talking to yourself -- Bob, 17:54:16 10/18/09 Sun
        Re: Have fun talking to yourself -- Bob, 15:40:59 10/20/09 Tue

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