[Peace-discuss] Why Should the Senate Fund "Enduring" U.S. Military Bases in Afghanistan?

[C. G. Estabrook]

  What possible good does it do to /*say*/ that the bases are non-enduring if 
the money is voted for them?!

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).

Does anyone really believe that that US military construction in Iraq was 
/*not*/ "long-term," in spite of pious phrases from the Congress?


On 8/25/10 2:30 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
> 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."
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/why-should-the-senate-fun_b_694437.html
>
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/8/25/15145/7039
>
> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/689
>
> Action link for writing to the Senate:
> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/afghanistanbases
>
> --
> Robert Naiman
> Policy Director
> Just Foreign Policy
> www.justforeignpolicy.org
> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
>
> Urge Congress to Support a Timetable for Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan
> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern
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