The Senate today voted 93-7 in favor of the $636 billion defense appropriations bill to provide funding to the US military over the fiscal year beginning this month.
The bill includes $128.2 billion in funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and bars President Obama from transferring any of the suspects at Guantanamo Bay to the US for trials.
Two of the Senators voting against the bill, Sens. McCain and Feingold, objected to the $2.5 billion in continued funding for C-17 military aircraft. The Pentagon has said it doesn’t want the aircraft, and the Obama Administration has sought to cancel the funding for them.
Meanwhile . . . . many small towns in America are turning off their street lights at night, one of the first and most basic functions of government from the dawn of recorded history, to meet budget realities.
But Its things ACORN that get them upset. Yep- all those Red States, filled with populations afraid of big bad "terrorists" that don't know or care they exist and that are exactly zero threat to them- are perfectly happy to fund these wars for the aggrandizement of Washington DC to the official tune of 636 billion dollars but get all up in arms over 53 million to some half assed NGO run by black people.
At this point – we deserve what we get.
Just for 1.5 billion dollars US is imposing unthinkable restrictions on Pakistan. If you give dollars 50 billion to Pakistan Army it will finish off the Taliban in a matter of one year. This will spare US of many aches and make world a better place to live. The US cannot finish off Al qaeda or Taliba even if the Defence Budget is raised to a trillion dollars. Trust Pakistan and Pakistan Army and make us your friend, then relax and bask in warm sun.