[Peace-discuss] With IMF Money, the War Supplemental Could Fail in the House

[Robert Naiman]

Last month, 60 Members of the House of Representatives, including 51
Democrats, voted against the war supplemental for Afghanistan,
Pakistan, and Iraq. But this week, when the House is expected to
consider the agreement of a House-Senate conference on the war
funding, the supplemental could well be defeated on the floor of the
House - if most of the 51 anti-war Democrats stick to their no vote -
which they might, if they hear from their constituents.

The key thing that's changed is the Treasury Department's insistence
that the war supplemental include a $100 billion bailout for the
International Monetary Fund - a bailout for European banks facing big
losses in Eastern Europe, the international version of the Wall Street
bailout.

House Republicans, including Minority Leader John Boehner, have
threatened to vote no on the war funding if the IMF money is attached.
If Boehner could bring all the Republicans with him, and if all the
Democrats who voted no last month voted no again, the war supplemental
would fail on the floor of the House, 200-228.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/with-imf-money-the-war-su_b_210738.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/3/91652/79819

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/43206

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Robert Naiman
Just Foreign Policy
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