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March 27, 2007

Who's Defunding the Troops?
Posted by Ilan Goldenberg

Matt Yglesias makes an important point that we should all be hammering on.

If George W. Bush vetos the Iraq supplemental the Democrats passed, isn't that him cutting off funding for the troops in the field? I mean, here's congress, appropriating some funds for the troops, and instead of letting the troops get the funds Bush is saying, no, he'll hold their well-being hostage to advance his own perogatives and ego.

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