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Omnibus Spending: Senate missed the mark

By Chris Lugo | December 26, 2007 |

Last week the United States Senate passed the Omnibus Spending Bill, which included an appropriation of $70 billion for Iraq, showing that the Senate is once again out of touch with the basic values of the American people. According to a December 13th Gallup survey, Americans say that the war in Iraq is their number one concern, yet this past week the US Senate voted to “stay the course” and handed the President everything he wanted with respect to the war in Iraq.

American’s are highly skeptical about the notion of progress in Iraq, with only 11% polling responding that they are “pleased” with the results of the war. Yet Americans seem resigned to the fact that US troops are going to remain in Iraq. The simple fact is that the United States cannot afford to continue this war. In addition to the complete lack of international support for Bush’s folly, the middle class can no longer afford to pay for the war. The national debt is at an all time high of $9.1 trillion dollars and Congress has appropriated another $580 billion dollars in military spending, far in excess of the actual amount of appropriations needed to defend the national security . «Read the rest of this article»

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Some other people we should listen to on escalation in Iraq

By Bill Larson | January 29, 2007 |

We heard the President and his administration’s position during the state of the union.

We can hear the corporate media’s opinion any time we turn on the various news channels. After all, the media in this country is a wholly owned subsidiary of the military industrial corporate complex and they know who butters their bread.

So lets take a moment to hear from those who are and have been directly affected by this immoral and illegal war of aggression in Iraq.

VoteVets is joining organizations such as MoveOn, SEIU (Service Employees International Union), and the Center for America Progress as founding members of Americans Against Escalation in Iraq.

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