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Today through Thursday is a national call-in to oppose further war funding. Call the Congressional switchboard at (202) 224-3121. Ask for your senator or representative to register your opposition.

Three quarters of a trillion dollars this year alone for war while California is issuing IOUs is insane.

Pentagon wants $33 billion more for war in Afghanistan

The Pentagon's request for a $33 billion war supplemental for Afghanistan has Congress concerned about long-term costs. Training Afghan security forces, for instance, could take years.

By Gordon Lubold, Staff writer / March 25, 2010
Washington

The Pentagon wants $33 billion in additional funding to pay for the war in Afghanistan this year and train the Afghan military, but members of Congress want to make sure they�re not writing a blank check.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared before Senate appropriators to defend the war supplemental, which is on top of the $708 billion baseline budget submitted to Congress in February.

Most of the war supplemental � a separate account used to pay for war costs � will pay for Afghanistan operations. Of that, $2.6 billion is to train the Afghan national security force, seen as a long-term endeavor that Congress worries could become a burden over time.
When can US forces leave?

�The question is, how long is that going to have to continue to the point where we can kind of say we�ve done our thing,� asked Sen. George Voinovich (R) of Ohio. �Five years, ten years, 15 years?�

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