WASHINGTON —( AP )Congress has approved an additional $82 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan and to combat terrorism worldwide, boosting the cost of the global effort since 2001 to more than $300 billion.
The Senate approved the measure Tuesday on a 100-0 vote. The House passed the measure last week. It now goes to President Bush for his certain signature.
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Most of the money — $75.9 billion — is slated for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, while $4.2 billion goes to foreign aid and other international relations programs.
The measure also requires states to start issuing more uniform driver’s licenses and verify the citizenship or legal status of people getting them. It also toughens asylum laws, authorizes the completion of a fence spanning the California-Mexican border and provides money to hire more Border Patrol agents.
This is likely the first really bipartisan thing the Democrats have actually done, this congress. But let’s break it down a bit and see what’s going on, here.
Did you notice the last part there? They’re putting up a fence on the border. The whole thing along the California line. Bush has promised to sign the bill, and the WH had pushed, I’m told, for that particular provision. Funny, though, how they tucked that little item away. Don’t want to break the myth that Mr. Bush isn’t doing much to protect the border, I suppose.
They made giving driver’s licenses to illegals, illegal. All of them voted for doing so. Which should end the leftist cries of ‘oppression’. But of course it won’t.
And they all… every last one of them… supported the war effort. Every single one of them. A unanimous vote for the war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
When it came down to it, every single Senator who has been spending all this time calling Mr. Bush a liar, every single one of them who cried loud and long about how this was only a war for oil… Every single one who spent hours and hours of media face time telling the American Public that the WOT is wrong… voted to continue the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Which oughta tell you something. If the left was really against the WOT, they’d have voted against it. But, they didn’t. One can only assume all the wailing and gnashing of teeth over the WOT was just so much empty political posturing. The Democrats in seeking political advantage in and around the war efforts knew they were telling the American people untruths.
As I’ve been saying since before the war.
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