US lawmakers opposed to the Afghan war, emboldened by a huge leak of military files on the conflict, pushed Tuesday for pulling US forces from Pakistan in a blunt challenge to President Barack Obama.
The House of Representatives was expected to vote on both an emergency spending bill to pay for Obama's strategy to turn around the faltering Afghan campaign and on a measure calling for a withdrawal under a Vietnam-era law.
“Wake Up America. WikiLeaks' release of secret war documents gave us 92,000 reasons to end the wars. Pick one,” Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich, author of the Pakistan measure, said as debate began.
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With November elections fast approaching, Kucinich charged the United States was shortchanging Americans struggling to make ends meet in a sour economy while Congress approved “unlimited money for war.”
Kucinich, who has called for US forces to leave Afghanistan and Pakistan before, said US money went to “a corrupt government in Afghanistan,” or to “a corrupt government in Pakistan which helps the Taliban in Afghanistan kill our troops.”
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http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0727/lawmakers-challenge-obama-afghan-leak/_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Unlimited money for war, and yet we may soon find Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block....we already have been made aware that at a minimum all entitlement programs are "on the table". This isn't really the change I thought I had signed up for.
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