The Obama administration will ask Congress for another $83.4 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the end of September, Democratic congressional sources said Thursday.
Obama seeks another $83 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan
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NATO allies pledge 5,000 troops to Afghanistan
America’s NATO allies in Afghanistan are committing 5,000 more troops to the fight against the Taliban, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Saturday. Around 3,000 forces from allied and partner nations will provide security leading up to Afghan elections later this year
Leahy calls for ‘truth commission’ on torture
The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman called Wednesday for the establishment of a nonpartisan "commission of inquiry" to investigate allegations of wrongdoing against former Bush administration officials in their prosecution of the war on terrorism. Nothing “did more to damage America’s place in the world than the revelation that our great nation stretched the law and the bounds of executive power to authorize torture and cruel treatment,” Sen.
Obama’s Yes-We-Can War: 17,000 More Troops to Afghanistan
Afghanistan became President Obama’s war on Tuesday, when he ordered two more U.S. combat brigades into the fight