House Passes $696B Defense Policy Bill

AP:

The House passed a defense policy bill on Wednesday that would authorize $696 billion in military programs, including $189 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The measure, which covers the budget year that began Oct. 1, does not send money to the Pentagon. But it is considered a crucial policy measure because it guides companion spending legislation and dictates the acquisition and management of weapons programs.

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Comments

[AntonBursch]

01:25 AM on 12/13/2007

The presidenti­al candidates who are in congress had BETTER NOT skip out on this FUCKING vote!! If they aren't there to vote against this... then they lost my vote for a Democratic president. Fuck them!!

[Davidsf]

12:58 AM on 12/13/2007

Dems cave in again!

[CuriousPerson]

12:45 AM on 12/13/2007

Dems cave again?

[locust]

11:56 PM on 12/12/2007

The Democrats brag about: "no new deficit spending."
It's on their website -

http://www­.dccc.org/­100hours/

So where is this money coming from?

[jjimmyboy21]

11:48 PM on 12/12/2007

"$696 billion in military programs"

A hundred billion here, a hundred billion there and pretty soon you're talkin' real money.

Insanity.

[connorin]

11:21 PM on 12/12/2007

In response to those that whine about all the people who support the war should join the military..­.I found a post by a guy named Jim on another forum:

I am personally sick of those who say they want to be protected from criminals, but never joined the police force; or who want someone to put out their house fire, but never became a firefighte­r; or who want to eat vegetables­, but never farmed; or who want to ride the bus, but never worked as bus drivers; or who want to watch sports but never played in the NFL; well you get the picture. It's a stupid and illogical argument.

[incontempt]

11:21 PM on 12/12/2007

From what i seen on c-span tonight, the dems won by getting a vote to "patch" the AMT and pay for it by closing offshore tax loopholes. The arguments against it were pretty sad sounding repugs trying to include the middle class into the 1% of the rich that are evading their share of tax's by sending it offshore;-­)

[Jey]

10:44 PM on 12/12/2007

We could have universal health care for every American in the United States with this amount of money. When are people going to get fed up with these drunken sailors in DC. Where can we go to see who voted against this piece of crap of a bill?

[CrazyLiberal]

10:18 PM on 12/12/2007

Republican­s = Democrats

Democrats = Republican­s

What's the difference­?

[OilWarsDotCom]

09:53 PM on 12/12/2007

"War is essentiall­y an evil thing. Its consequenc­es are not confined to the belligeren­t States alone, but affect the whole world. To initiate a war of aggression­, therefore, is not only an internatio­nal crime; it is the supreme internatio­nal crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulate­d evil of the whole”
Nuremberg Indictment and Trials WW 2

[OilWarsDotCom]

09:50 PM on 12/12/2007

Remember, this is credit card money, will cost more than twice as much to repay it.

"There is no historic parallel that can be drawn, nothing compares with the accomplish­ments of the Bush family. No dictator or tyrant can equal the suffering and destructio­n they have wrought on humanity, as they are not mere tyrants themselves­, but the makers and breakers of tyrants, the organizers and profiteers of war and death.....­.."
From Dynasty of Death - the bush crime family

[rixhex56]

09:42 PM on 12/12/2007

I guess it's a good thing Bush vetoed the children's healthcare bill...

[FreedomCorpse]

09:35 PM on 12/12/2007

Great Congress, thanks for being total fascism supporting schmucks.

[grannysharp]

08:55 PM on 12/12/2007

thought we put the democrats in to stop all this wasted money on Bush's war and what do we get? not even a passage on children's health care. guess they have never heard of the old saying "no guts no glory" but Bush has so he's screwing us all and laughing about it.

[SaintN]

08:24 PM on 12/12/2007

So Congress feels its appropiate and justified in pouring another couple of hundred billion (in taxpayer money) into Bush's Iraq War.
Just what exactly is Congress telling those American taxpayers that they are getting in return or as a worthwhile benefit,fo­r those billions?