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Saturday, November 20, 2004 |
NY Times: "House and Senate negotiators have tucked a potentially far-reaching anti-abortion provision into a $388 billion must-pass spending bill, complicating plans for Congress to wrap up its business and adjourn for the year."
Nobody has had the time to read the provisions which are then passed in the small hours. Republicans operate like thieves in the night. But there will always be room for a war budget increase.
Military: "The Pentagon is spending more than $5.8 billion a month on the war in Iraq, according to the military's top generals.
That is nearly a 50 percent increase above the $4 billion-a-month benchmark the Pentagon has used to estimate the cost of the war so far."
SeattleTimes: "Relief organizations estimate up to 250,000 Iraqis have fled Fallujah to nearby villages and Baghdad, but the groups have not been able to assess the refugees' needs because of fighting around the former insurgent bastion, a U.N. official said yesterday."
I bet there will be no money to rebuild the houses of those people.
Kait8: "The videotaped shooting of a Fallujah combatant by a U-S Marine has evoked strong emotions in the Arab world and on Capitol Hill.
Texas Democrat Sylvestre Reyes says it's time to rethink the presence of embedded reporters in combat zones. During a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee, Reyes compared it to a football game, saying 'we don't want to know everything that's going on on the field'."
Especially not in the case of war crimes. Let the murder continue.
In the meantime, in the Homeland, corruption is rife.
Citizen: "Rep. Tom Delay of Texas was re-elected on Tuesday as House Majority Leader - even though he has received more rebukes for violations of House ethics rules than any other sitting member of Congress. Then the Republicans took the unprecedented step yesterday of changing their caucus rules so that DeLay could continue as Majority Leader EVEN IF HE IS INDICTED BY A GRAND JURY - which he could very well be for his suspected role in political money-laundering schemes in Texas."
Criminals are now in charge of America and the world.
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