War Funding

Obama Administration: There Are No Current Plans To Ask Congress For Libya Funds

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Among the features of America’s military involvement in Libyan airspace that has given some lawmakers pause: the cost. At a time when ...

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Barney Frank Wants All Troops Home From Iraq: 'What The Hell Are They Doing There?'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) called on Friday for President Obama to bring the 50,000 troops remaining in Iraq back home to the United States, arguing ...

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Ryan Grim: Vote To Fund Afghanistan War Shows "Unbelievable Disconnect" Between American People And Washington (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

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Huffington Post political reporter Ryan Grim went on MSNBC today to discuss congressional support for the war in Afghanistan. On Tuesday the House of ...

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War Bill Could Be Stopped Today With 144 Votes

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Antiwar Democrats have a rare opportunity to knock down a war funding bill, just days after Wikileaks released more than 90,000 documents confirming t...

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Pentagon Papers 2.0: Afghanistan

Phyllis Bennis | Posted 05.25.2011

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There is no evidence yet of a new smoking gun among the individual documents. But taken as a whole, the documents provide a collective arsenal of evidence of a brutal war that never did have a chance to "succeed".

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Afghan Envoy Holbrooke and Senate in La La Land

Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011

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La La Land, it seems, is not poor Afghanistan, but Washington DC, where politicians send our youth off to fight and die in an endless war they themselves don't believe in.

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$30 Billion More For Afghanistan: War Funding Bill Passes House

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Despite pessimism that the war in Afghanistan is turning out to be a quagmire, Democrats controlling the House muscled through a pl...

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All politics is local: Al-Qa'eda and the Afghanistan War

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The view...

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Obama Threatens To Veto War Funding Bill Over Proposed Education Reform Cuts

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Despite pessimism that the war in Afghanistan is turning out to be a quagmire, Democrats controlling the House muscled through a pl...

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GOP Wants War Funds Paid For But Not With Tax Hikes

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Senate Republican is working to persuade his colleagues to vote against President Obama's war supplemental spending bill if it isn't paid for, threa...

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War Spending Surges In Obama's Budget

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama's new budget, to be released Monday, forecasts two consecutive years of near $160 billion in war funding, far more than he hope...

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Is The U.S. Preparing To Bomb Iran?

ABC News | Jonathan Karl | Posted 05.25.2011

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Is the U.S. stepping up preparations for a possible attack on Iran's nuclear facilities? The Pentagon is always making plans, but based on a little-n...

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Senate Panel OKs $128 Billion For Afghanistan, Iraq Wars

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — With hardly any debate, a powerful Senate committee Thursday approved President Barack Obama's $128 billion request for military op...

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Senate Beats Back Military-Industrial Complex In Historic Vote

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama won a major victory in the Senate Tuesday in a dogfight that has major, long-term implications for his agenda. The Senate, by a vote ...

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Pro-War Caucus Running the Democratic Party Ditches the Masks

Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011

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Recent actions by the DCCC and House Democratic leadership reveal that electing more Democrats and defeating Republican incumbents has taken a back seat to a radical, pro-war agenda.

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A Clunky Way to Spend Billions

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 05.25.2011

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The recent Cash for Clunker legislation passed by Congress as part of the $106 billion war funding bill is a complete and total waste of a billion dollars short term, four billion long term.

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Netroots Push For "No" Votes On War-Funding Bill (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011

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In anticipation of Tuesday's House vote on the war supplemental spending bill, which still includes money for the International Monetary Fund but not ...

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Bill Allows Obama To Try Gitmo Detainees In US Courts

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — After a flare-up over controversial detainee abuse photos, House-Senate negotiators sealed agreement on a crucial war-funding bill ...

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House Passes $97 Billion War Funding Bill Despite Dem Concerns

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Despite Democrats' rising anxiety about Afghanistan, the House on Thursday easily passed a $96.7 billion measure filling President ...

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Gates: Financial Woes No Excuse To Avoid Funding Afghanistan War

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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CORNWALLIS, Nova Scotia — Even in a global financial crisis, the world cannot afford to skimp on its obligations to Afghanistan, which wants to ...

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Senate GOP Set To Block Troop Funding Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Republicans in the Senate may be walking into a political trap this week, in which their insistence on considering energy legislation leads them to bl...

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House rejects bill funding Iraq, Afghanistan wars

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Bush's Iraq war funding request collapsed in the House Thursday as anti-war Democrats and Republicans unhappy about added...

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House Drafts Bill to Fund War Efforts

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The leaders of a House panel that oversees military spending said Wednesday they are drafting legislation that would pay for combat...

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US War Costs Increased Significantly In 2007

Reuters | Richard Cowan | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Iraq war may not dominate U.S. news reports as the carnage drops, but a new report underscores the financial burden of persistent combat that is h...

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Anti-War Groups Retreat On Funding Fight

Politico | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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After a series of legislative defeats in 2007 that saw the year end with more U.S. troops in Iraq than when it began, a coalition of anti-war groups i...

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