Senate Passes Iraq War Funding Bill With Add-Ons

Source: Associated Press

Senate passes Iraq war funding bill with add-ons
By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer
23 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans have broken with President Bush to help Democrats add support for veterans and the unemployed to a bill paying for another year of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The 75-22 vote also added billions of dollars in other domestic funds such as heating subsidies for the poor and money for fighting wildfires to funding for military operations overseas.

Shortly afterward, the Senate voted 70-26 to approve $165 billion to pay for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan into next spring, when Bush's successor will set war policy. All told, the measure contains $212 billion over the coming two years, plus about $50 billion more through 2017 for veterans education benefits.

The vote on the domestic add-ons was a rebuke to Bush, who has promised to veto the measure if it contains the domestic measures. However, the president still has enough GOP support in the House to sustain a veto.

"Our troops deserve better than having essential war time resources held hostage to billions in unrelated spending," said White House spokesman Tony Fratto. "Congress should pass a clean war funding bill when they return from Memorial Day recess."

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If they vote for funding they get people angry at them who then act like little children act like when they throw a temper tantrum and say they are going to hold their breath until they get what they want, if they dont vote for the funding then they get told they are not patriots or that they dont support the troops.

They are war criminals just as surely as Bush, Rumsfeld, Rice, and etc.

How many more will die due to this "bill of approval"?

This man should be hanged for his crimes, and here they are forking over cash to CONTINUE the crimes! And they call themselves Democrats.

I'll never vote for a Republican, but there's a lot of Democrats I'll never support anymore either.