What is wrong with the bill passed by Congress and vetoed by Bush?
UFPJ opposed the compromise war funding bill passed by Congress because it does not end the war: • the bill pours another $100 BILLION into the war; • the bill allows the war and occupation to continue for at least another year; • the deadline for troop withdrawal was not firm, it was too long, and it allows the president to leave too many troops behind (as many as 60,000 non-combat troops could remain in Iraq after the deadline). • How much has this war cost us? The war funding bill would have given Bush almost $100 billion more to continue the war. That would bring the total spending on the war to over $500 billion. AND, the president has included a request for another $145 billion for the war beginning in October. • What do the experts say? • Kenneth Katzman, a Middle East expert at the Congressional Research Service, told Reuters, “The Sunni insurgents have basically taken the troop surge, chewed it up, and spit it out. It has had virtually no overall effect on their operations wha
