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Die Suche nach »Iraq bill« hat 748 Resultate geliefert. Angezeigt werden die Resultate von 181 bis 190.



Blue Dogs Vow to Bite on Iraq Spending Bill
Mike Soraghan, of The Hill: "A small group of fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrats is threatening to block the emergency war spending bill over a program for veterans' benefits not offset with tax... ...
Drowning in dollars
CounterPunch by Winslow Wheeler 05/07/08 It is now conventional wisdom to say that the Pentagon budget is higher in “real” dollars[1] than at any point since the end of World War II. The $635 billion... ...
Pentagon Backs Plan to Build US "Zone of Influence" in Baghdad
Satyam Khanna, of ThinkProgress.org, reports: "The White House has repeatedly insisted that the United States has 'no desire for permanent bases' in Iraq. Nevertheless, the Bush administration is seeking... ...
Contractors Gone Wild
In Mother Jones, Bruce Falconer writes: "Allegations of widespread mismanagement and corruption among private contractors in Iraq are nothing new; if anything, tales of cronyism, over-billing, and embezzlement... ...
Bush details $70 billion war request for 2009
President's request raises war, terror bill to $875 billion http://www.msnbc.m sn.com/id/24428337/ From Information Clearing House -------- Bush's $70 Billion War Funding Request for 2009 Andrew Taylor... ...
A new reason to go to war
Future of Freedom Foundation by Sheldon Richman 04/30/08 Preside nt Bush acts like a teenager with a credit card and rich parents. He never sees the bill, so he just buys what he wants and charges it.... ...
Health Care: Mission Accomplished
"Bill Moyers Journal profiles the fight the California Nurses Association (CNA) has been waging over universal health care. "There shouldn't be a double standard," says Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director... ...
Vets say they feel misled about GI benefits
CNN 04/29/08 Cheated. Baited and switched. That’s how veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan say they feel about military recruiters who sold them on how the GI Bill would benefit them. Soldiers, Marines and... ...
House Democrats Look to Fund War Through 2009
http://www.commondreams.or g/archive/2008/04/28/8568/ -------- House Democrats work on huge Iraq money bill House Democratic leaders are putting together the largest Iraq war spending bill yet, a measure... ...
Investigators: Millions in Iraq Contracts Never Finished
Hope Yen, of The Associated Press, reports: "Millions of dollars of lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts were never finished because of excessive delays, poor performance or other factors, including... ...