…off, funding is being delayed. We can not pay soldiers, after all. They’re getting food and lodging in Afghanistan or Iraq or Libya anyway; they don’t need money. Pat Toomey…

…soldiers killed in action in Iraq or Afghanistan, holding signs saying that the death was god’s retribution. (E.g., “Thank God for dead soldiers.”) But every time I read a new…

…to 4.3% in 2008, 4.8% in 2010, and is slated to go above 5% this year. Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Libya all cost money, especially if conducted with sweetheart no-bid…

…programs, agencies, and contractors. … All this is inextricably interwoven with our present wars. If – after our withdrawal from Iraq, Afghanistan and similar adventures, an increasingly inevitable consequence of…

…Republicans by turning the tide of public opinion. This Dem also could make the Afghanistan-war bottomless money-and-lives pit a hot topic, too. This uninterrupted rightwing monologue we’ve endured throughout the…

…for years, a process that was carred to extremes under Bush to fund the Bush tax cuts and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Source: OMB via Huffington Post Why doesn’t…

…due to the Bush tax cuts and increased defense spending due to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which will hopefully wind down in the not too distant future. Raising future…

…about tangible acts and omissions, from Gitmo to Afghanistan to the environment to gay rights to secrecy and executive power. But a couple of things stand out here. First this…

…facts we are told over and over again, like cutting taxes spurs economic growth or that the folks benefiting the most from our largess in Iraq and Afghanistan, not to…

…Taliban.” Mentions one who has opened about forty schools in Afghanistan in cooperation with the U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council. Jenna Hager speaks of girls who “escaped early marriage.” She’s very enthusiastic,…