Senate GOP splits with Bush on Iraq bill

WASHINGTON | Senate Republicans have broken with President Bush to help Democrats add help for veterans and the unemployed to a bill paying for another year of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

The 75-22 vote also adds billions of dollars in other domestic funds such as heating subsidies for the poor and money for fighting wildfires to the $165 billion for the military operations overseas.

The vote is 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 to sustain a veto.

The House still has to act on the bill. Last week, the House voted to reject money for continuing the war.

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What kind of person does that? Why would anyone go to Iraq to fight his war for him?

And why are they passing any more money for that illegal looting? Screw adding more things to a war funding bill, stop funding the damn war at all and hold the bastard accountable so he won't have the power to veto help for all of the poor people he has created.

What drives me crazy is the lump-sum mentality of such bills. Rather than debate strategy and the costs, they just debate a big dollar figure. Where does the money go? Into whose pockets?

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It only takes 67 to override a veto...

They can always claim they voted for it.

But I wouldn't put anything by these repukes.