washingtonpost.com - 8/11/2009
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huffingtonpost.com - 8/11/2009
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By Scott Horton Special to the Huffington Post
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama sharply criticized...
the Bush Administration's extraordinary renditions program. "To build a better, freer world, we must first behave in ways that ...
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Target Of Obama-Era Rendition Alleges Torture
WWW.samefacts.com - 8/6/2009
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Afghanistan has never been rich. After thirty years
of invasion, war, and religious totalitarianism, it is now...
one of the poorest countries in the world. The insurgency and various kinds of organized thuggery and warlordism (and some ...
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Solving the poverty problem in Afghanistan by handing ...
democracyarsenal.org - 8/10/2009
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The Page by Mark Halperin —
Getty U.S.'s Afghan ambassador asks for a further $2.5B for development and reconstruction in 2010.
Rising Costs in Afghanistan
The Page by Mark Halperin —
Getty U.S. ambassador requests further $2.5 billion for development and reconstruction in 2010.
ThinkFast: August 12, 2009
Think Progress —
... U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry has informed Secretary Clinton that he believes an additional “$2.5 billion in nonmilitary spending will be needed for 2010, about 60 percent more than the amount President Obama has requested from Congress.” The increase is needed “if we are to show progress in the next 14 months,” Eikenberry wrote in a cable to Clinton. ...
TPMDC Morning Roundup
TPM Election Central —
... The Washington Post reports that U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl W. Eikenberry has requested additional money for country, telling Sec. of State Hillary Clinton that an additional $2.5 billion in non-military spending will be needed for 2010. This is 60% more than the amount that PResident Obama has requested from Congress. ...
Afghanistan by the Numbers: Measuring a War Gone to Hell
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... for U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan, 2002: $20.8 billion. Annual funding for U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan, 2009: $60.2 billion. Total funds for U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan, 2002-2009: $228.2 billion. War-fighting funds requested by the Obama administration for 2010: $68 billion (a figure which will, for the first time since 2003, exceed funds requested for Iraq). Funds recently requested by U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry for non-military spending in Afghanistan, 2010: $2.5 billion. Funds spent since 2001 on Afghan "reconstruction": $38 ...
Tom Engelhardt: Afghanistan by the Numbers
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... War-fighting funds requested by the Obama administration for 2010: $68 billion (a figure which will, for the first time since 2003, exceed funds requested for Iraq). ...
Engelhardt: Afghanistan By The Numbers
Newshoggers.com —
... War-fighting funds requested by the Obama administration for 2010: $68 billion (a figure which will, for the first time since 2003, exceed funds requested for Iraq). ...
Measuring a War Gone to Hell
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... for U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan, 2002: $20.8 billion. Annual funding for U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan, 2009: $60.2 billion. Total funds for U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan, 2002-2009: $228.2 billion. War-fighting funds requested by the Obama administration for 2010: $68 billion (a figure which will, for the first time since 2003, exceed funds requested for Iraq). Funds recently requested by U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry for non-military spending in Afghanistan, 2010: $2.5 billion. Funds spent since 2001 on Afghan “reconstruction”: $38 billion ...
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