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Mary Hemmann of Boulder writes:

No More $$$ for War
Later this month, Congress will vote on whether to give President Bush approximately $192 billion to continue the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Approximately 51% of our tax dollars will go to the military in FY 2008, including the regular baseline military budget of $482 billion plus the $192 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan.
The $450 billion spent so far for the wars against Iraq and Afghanistan could have paid for 7,795,651 additional public school teachers or health insurance for 269,360,832 children for one year, or provided 21,806,898 students four-year scholarships at public universities.
The human costs are also staggering. Approximately 1.2 million Iraqis and 3760 U.S. military personnel have died. Many more have been wounded and maimed for life.
Despite the fact that about 70% of the American people want the war to end, the Democratic Party-controlled Congress, which won in November because they promised to end the war, continued to fund it for $100 billion this May.
Without public pressure, Congress will continue to fund the war. Millions of voices are needed to stop it, including yours. Please call your Congress people (more info at www.congress.org) at 202-224-3121 and tell them to vote against the funding and bring the troops home now.

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READER COMMENTS

Mary,

Unfortunately the Democrats have let us down beause they are too afraid of the backlash if they don't approve the $. They are too interested in keeping their jobs and afraid of "we would have won but the dem's pulled the plug and they don't support the troops". Also if you want to give $ to Americans for health care, schooling etc. you are a socialist and a communist. But if you want it to go to Iraq and the corporations there you are a patriotic American. We won't ever leave, it is a stategic play to control the oil flow so the Chinese can't...

I see mary is joining the village idiots.

all of you are the problem

Mike D - How about we don't spend money on war OR social programs like Hillarycare.

Lets let the citizens keep more of what they earn rather than letting the feds decide how best to spend it.

BTW Mary - If 50% your income already goes to taxes, then having only 51% of taxes going to the war shouldn't upset you.

These posts from the likes of "Keith" , "an American" and the others are the best evidence of these right-wingers playing into Bush's ploy, scare the *&#$ out of you, make you paranoid so you do his bidding, and completely polarize this country like it's never been before. I have no admiration for the so-called "intellect" of these kind of people, they apparently have way too much time on their hands, and are more of an irritant than any thing. This was supposed to be a place for intelligent discussion, but with these kind of comments they are only trying to show everyone how they have it all figured out, and the rest of us are the "Idiots" . "danger"? only to thmeselves!-It's embarrasingly laughable! And, don't bother to respond with your insults,'cause I'm out of here, I do have a life....

Add roland to village idiot list.liberal leaders like Al Qaeda leaders recruit the ignorant to spread there cancer.

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