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Will House Dems Oppose a Jobless War Supplemental?

July 23, 2010

The war supplemental for Afghanistan is expected to come back from the Senate to the House next week – without any kind of timetable for military withdrawal from Afghanistan, and without money to save teachers’ jobs attached. AP reports: In a take-it-or-leave-it gesture, the Senate voted Thursday night to reject more than $20 billion…

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Congressional Pressure Can Help End the War, Saving Many Lives

April 6, 2010

In the next several weeks, Congress is likely to be asked to approve $33 billion more for the war in Afghanistan, mainly to pay for the current military escalation, whose focus is the planned assault on the Afghan city of Kandahar. Some Members of Congress will vote no on the funding. A larger group of…

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If One Phone Call Could End the War

March 8, 2010

If you could end the war in Afghanistan by making one phone call, would you make that call? Would you press 10 buttons to stop the wanton destruction of the lives of American soldiers and Afghan civilians? I suspect that the majority of the literate adult population in the United States, if faced with that…

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With IMF Money, the War Supplemental Could Fail in the House

June 4, 2009

Last month, 60 Members of the House of Representatives, including 51 Democrats, voted against the war supplemental for Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq. But this week, when the House is expected to consider the agreement of a House-Senate conference on the war funding, the supplemental could well be defeated on the floor of the House –…

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Will House Dems Oppose a Jobless War Supplemental?

Congressional Pressure Can Help End the War, Saving Many Lives

If One Phone Call Could End the War

With IMF Money, the War Supplemental Could Fail in the House