What's more appalling than $165 billion?
http://groups.google.de/group/archive_news/t/5161d12500db4f70?hl=en
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A Devil's Bargain
For Truthout, Carolyn Eisenberg writes: "With the president's signature now affixed to the bill, the clever deal is done. In exchange for another 'blank check' for a year of war, the Democrats have wrested from their Republican colleagues and the White House a host of domestic benefits ... Depending on their source of news, few Americans may be aware that Congress has now allocated another $162 billion to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan until next summer. In many media outlets, the only coverage pertained to the new educational benefits for soldiers. But even when the war funding received nominal attention, one would be hard-pressed to find in the mainstream media, or for that matter in the halls of Congress, any critical discussion of this political deal."
http://www.truthout.org/article/a-devils-bargain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=CodePink
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Carolyn+Eisenberg
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A Devil's Bargain
For Truthout, Carolyn Eisenberg writes: "With the president's signature now affixed to the bill, the clever deal is done. In exchange for another 'blank check' for a year of war, the Democrats have wrested from their Republican colleagues and the White House a host of domestic benefits ... Depending on their source of news, few Americans may be aware that Congress has now allocated another $162 billion to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan until next summer. In many media outlets, the only coverage pertained to the new educational benefits for soldiers. But even when the war funding received nominal attention, one would be hard-pressed to find in the mainstream media, or for that matter in the halls of Congress, any critical discussion of this political deal."
http://www.truthout.org/article/a-devils-bargain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=CodePink
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Carolyn+Eisenberg
rudkla - 3. Jul, 23:02
