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

[Robert Naiman]

The documentary record shows that Congress actually rejected funding
for Pentagon projects in Iraq that "seemed long-term."

It has not done so in the case of Afghanistan.

Therefore, there is a difference that is not merely rhetorical. That
is an objective fact.

As a matter of personal taste, you may not care about this difference.
"It's a free country," as we used to say in grade school.

But to say that the difference does not exist, or is merely
rhetorical, is simply not accurate.

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:55 AM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 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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-- 
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