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Congress Funds Wars With Billions to Spare
Submitted by Christopher Lempa on Thu, 2009-06-18 16:00
"?After the president signs a $106 billion emergency supplemental, the U.S. will have shelled out about $1 trillion in 'emergency' funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?not including the Pentagon's obscene annual budget, exponentially expanding health care costs for wounded troops, and the interest on all that debt.?"
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