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Wednesday, April 5, 2006

Senators Balk at Permanent Bases in Iraq


Senate appropriators Tuesday joined their House counterparts in warning the Bush administration against using taxpayer money to build permanent military bases in Iraq, stripping $177 million from the president's request for emergency defense construction projects in the country to underscore their point. (Los Angeles Times, Wednesday)

A break in the consensus.

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