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Check this video out -- Rep. Eric Massa calls for a conclusion to the war in Afghanistan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJqnWIQ3o1c 2 days ago |
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Powerful speech against the war in #Afghanistan by Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) on the 2,590th day of the war http://bit.ly/2yZsg 6 days ago |
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RT @AlanGrayson: Another Congressman with Guts, Rep. Eric Massa on the war in Afghanistan: http://bit.ly/kxvSF 7 days ago |
Get Out Now
Suburban Guerrilla —
Eric Massa makes an impassioned speech on Afghanistan:
Blue Dogs Determined To Save Jobs-- Their Own
DownWithTyranny! —
Blue Dog prepares for the 2010 midterms Few things get me more pissed off when election officials in DC stop discussing what's best for their constituents and start insisting that the agenda shift to doing things about protecting their own political careers. Yesterday, The Hill captured the moment perfectly: "Vulnerable House and Senate Democrats want ...
Rep. Eric Massa VIDEO: War In Afghanistan Must End
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
2,950.
That's the number that echoes throughout Rep. Eric Massa's (D-N.Y.) five minute speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, as he fervently calls for an end to the war in Afghanistan. Massa builds his speech by listing off numbers that underscore the massive amounts of money that have been spilled into the war: 2,950 is the number of days we have spent in Afghanistan, $300 billion is how much we have now spent, which comes out to $3,947.36 spent by every family of four.
"Tragically, that's just the good news," Massa says. The financial losses are small when compared with the "irrevocable loss comprised of 911 American combatants killed and 4,198 ...
Afghanistan
Balloon Juice —
I have to admit that I don’t have a very strong opinion about Afghanistan. I don’t understand the situation at all, I understand that, unlike Iraq, there may have been good reasons to go in, and I also understand that those reasons may or may not have anything to do with whether or not the United States should stay there and that staying there costs a lot of money and demands a huge sacrifice from our servicemen.
In any case, I was impressed with this speech about why we should get out, from my Congressman, Eric Massa: ...
Rep. Eric J.J. Massa: 2,951 days in Afghanistan is enough
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Last night, November 4th, I spoke on the floor of the House of Representatives to mark the 2,950th day of the war in Afghanistan and formalized my call to draw this conflict to a conclusion. As a freshman member of Congress that served in the United States Navy for 24 years, it has been my honor to serve on the House Armed Services Committee and the House Homeland Security Committee, and because of my background and experience, I think it's my duty to speak out on this issue.
To date, according to the non-partisan Congressional Research Service, the American taxpayer has spent or committed $3,000,000,000 to fund ...
2950 Days of War
Corrente —
via Balloon Juice
Senate Prepares To Back Another Obama War Supplemental For Afghanistan Escalation
DownWithTyranny! —
The faces are all that's Changed... and Hope? Forget that "For too long, our budget process in Washington has been an exercise in deception; a series of accounting tricks to hide the expense of our spending and the shortfalls in our revenue and hope that the American people won't notice. Budgeting certain expenditures for just one year, when we know we'll ...
