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What possible good does it do to <i><b>say</b></i> that the bases
are non-enduring if the money is voted for them?! <br>
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We need to pressure Congress to vote against funding the war, not to
find ways to put lipstick on this murderous pig (to borrow an Obama
phrase).<br>
<br>
Does anyone really believe that that US military construction in
Iraq was <i><b>not</b></i> "long-term," in spite of pious phrases
from the Congress?<br>
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On 8/25/10 2:30 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Walter Pincus reports in the Washington Post that the Pentagon is
planning to build military bases in Afghanistan for years of U.S.
combat. But the Senate could reject or restrict the money for such
construction; a step Congress took in 2008, when it rejected a
Pentagon request for military construction in Iraq that "seemed
long-term."
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/why-should-the-senate-fun_b_694437.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/why-should-the-senate-fun_b_694437.html</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/8/25/15145/7039">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/8/25/15145/7039</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/689">http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/689</a>
Action link for writing to the Senate:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/afghanistanbases">http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/afghanistanbases</a>
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Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a>
Urge Congress to Support a Timetable for Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern">http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern</a>
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