This "cakewalk" the Jewish Neocons got us into for Israel is sure getting
expensive! It's time for the Zionist entity to start paying its loans!
Pay up.
Tell Rabbi Zakheim to cough up the 2.3 trillion bucks too.
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UPDATE 1-U.S. Congress p***** new Iraq war funds
Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:05pm EDT
By Richard Cowan
WA****NGTON, June 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved
$161.8 billion in new funds to continue fighting the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan for the next year, without timetables for withdrawing combat
troops.
The House of Representatives passed an identical bill last week.
President George W. Bush is expected to promptly sign the measure into
law once he receives it from Congress.
The Senate's 92-6 vote to pass the war-funding bill marked a victory for
Bush, who has vigorously opposed any move by Congress to impose
timetables for ending the Iraq war, now in its sixth year.
Democrats, who are the majority party in Congress, repeatedly had tried
to set such dates, most recently with a House vote in May calling for
troop withdrawals to be completed by December 31, 2009.
The new war money could last through mid-2009, well past Bush's
departure from office on Jan. 20.
With this legislation, Democrats can claim victory in winning passage of
a significant expansion of veterans' education benefits and domestic
unemployment benefits.
The new money for combat in Iraq and Afghanistan puts the war tab since
late 2001 at more than $800 billion, with most of that money going to
Iraq.
Congress did attach two conditions on the funds, related to the war in
Iraq. It prohibited the construction of permanent U.S. military bases in
Iraq and required Baghdad to match, dollar-for-dollar, U.S.
reconstruction aid.
Now that Congress has passed the final war-funding bill of Bush's
presidency, debate of the Iraq war and how to end it moves to the
presidential campaigns being waged by Democrat Barack Obama and
Republican John McCain.
Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans get a huge new benefit with this
legislation: A significant expansion of college tuition payments by the
government at a cost of about $63 billion over 11 years. (Editing by
Eric Walsh)
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