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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> E.Wayne Johnson <ewj@pigs.ag><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> C. G. Estabrook <galliher@illinois.edu>; peace discuss <Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thu, July 15, 2010 3:46:49 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Peace-discuss] Pentagon Making ‘Emergency Plan’ to Keep War Going<BR></FONT><BR>It seems the only real long term way to fund the war machine is to create<BR>a new crisis. China doesnt seem to like the idea of the US picking a fight<BR>with the DPRK, and afpak seems to be losing its zip as a crowd pleaser.<BR><BR>Iran looks like the most likely target.<BR><BR>----- Original Message ----- From: "C. G. Estabrook" <<A href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu" ymailto="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">galliher@illinois.edu</A>><BR>To: "peace discuss" <<A
href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" ymailto="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</A>><BR>Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 4:28 AM<BR>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Pentagon Making ‘Emergency Plan’ to Keep War Going<BR><BR><BR>[Warmongering presidents back to (at least) Lincoln have schemed to keep their<BR>wars financed in the face of recalcitrant Congresses and the explicit provisions<BR>of the Constitution (art. 1, sect. 8). I have no doubt Obama will do the same if<BR>we force a Congressional cut-off of funds for the Mideast war, but it's still<BR>the principal legal avenue available for stopping the war. Our own senators are<BR>of course safe votes for war - Durbin may even become majority leader next year<BR>- and the voters of Illinois are not offered a choice on the matter in the fall<BR>election for senator: both major parties feature hacks who will support the war.<BR>Some democracy. We can
(and should) vote Green, but in the absence of a real<BR>public debate on the matter we'll get a pro-war Republican or Democrat. --CGE]<BR><BR>Pentagon Making ‘Emergency Plan’ to Keep War Going<BR>Without Additional Funds<BR>Spokesman Warns Lack of Emergency Funds<BR>'Extraordinarily Disruptive' [sic]<BR>by Jason Ditz, July 14, 2010<BR><BR>Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell says that the Defense Department is developing<BR>an “emergency plan” to keep the Afghan and Iraq Wars going without the<BR>additional funds the department has sought in the emergency war funding<BR>supplemental, which still hasn’t passed<BR><BR>“Needless to say, all of this is extraordinarily disruptive to the department,”<BR>Morrell insisted, “we’re sadly getting used to this fire drill.” [IT'S ABOUT<BR>TIME TO SET THOSE ARCHAIC CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS ASIDE AND LET THE PRESIDENT<BR>GET ON WITH HIS KILLING --CGE] The administration is seeking upwards of
$33<BR>billion in additional war funds in the emergency bill.<BR><BR>The House of Representatives passed war funding in a series of convoluted<BR>procedural votes, but made changes to the Senate version, sending it back to the<BR>Senate for reconciliation. The Senate has yet to debate the changes, but Sen.<BR>Reid says he expects them to do so before the August recess.<BR><BR>Yet the Defense Department had initially sought it before the July 4 recess, and<BR>Congressional leaders had said they expected to be able to deliver. Though in<BR>practice much of Congress is unwilling to oppose additional war funding under<BR>any circumstances, there have been a number of attempts to piggyback more and<BR>more domestic spending on the war bill, andit has delayed the process considerably.<BR><BR><A href="http://news.antiwar.com/2010/07/14/pentagon-making-emergency-plan-to-keep-war-going-without-additional-funds/"
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