Plenty of American Money for War. Sadly, not so much for Americans or America
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Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:31:41 GMT
An MQ-9 Reaper takes off in Afghanistan.
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The US Congress has sent President Barack Obama a massive
annual military spending bill, part of which is to be used
to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In a rare weekend vote on Saturday, the Senate approved the
$636.3 billion package, which cleared the House of
Representatives 395-34 on Wednesday, by an 88-10 margin.
In addition, Obama is expected to send Congress an emergency
spending measure of at least $30 billion early next year to
pay for his recently announced decision to send 30,000 more
US troops to Afghanistan.
The bill includes $80 million to acquire more unmanned
Predator drones for the US air war in Afghanistan and
Pakistan.
With little public debate in the United States, the pace of
the drone bombing attacks has steadily increased, starting
last year during ex-president George W. Bush's final months
in office.
US drone attacks have killed about 625 people in Pakistan
alone over the past 15 months.
The civilian casualties in the attacks and the perceived
violation of sovereignty have caused a dramatic rise in
anti-US sentiment in Pakistan.
The new military spending bill includes $101.1 billion for
operations and maintenance and military personnel
requirements in Iraq and Afghanistan and for the planned
withdrawal of all US combat forces from Iraq by August 2010.
The package also funds the purchase of 6,600 new Mine
Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) armored vehicles
configured to better resist improvised explosive devices -
roadside bombs used to deadly effect by insurgents in Iraq
and Afghanistan.
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