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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (68198)	1/15/2010 4:35:30 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

You are probably right. To me, the Chinese gov't is playing a dangerous game.....endorsing capitalism in all its glitter while restricting important freedoms. Iran plays the same game. In the end, I do not think it will end well for either gov't.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (68198)	1/16/2010 1:58:57 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 149317

President Obama pledges $100 Million in U.S. support to help Haiti this week and then I read this... Obama Plans to Ask Congress for Another $33 Billion for Iraq & Afghanistan Wars by Mary Susan Littlepage t r u t h o u t \| Report The Obama administration plans to ask Congress for an extra $33 billion to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to an Associated Press report. The $33 billion would be on top of a record request for $708 billion for the Defense Department next year. According to the AP, the administration also intends to tell Congress next month that its central military objectives for the next four years will include “winning the current wars while preventing new ones and that its core missions will include both counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations.” Top military commanders received a preview of the administration's budget plans through 2015. The extra $33 billion in 2010 would mostly go toward the expansion of the war in Afghanistan. It comes after Obama ordered an extra 30,000 troops for that war late last year.