Barbara Lee, Ron Paul float bill to end Afghanistan war

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By Josh Richman
Oakland Tribune

Updated: 02/17/2011 03:59:37 PM PST

Rep. Barbara Lee joined with two House Republicans to introduce a bill Thursday that they say would end the war in Afghanistan.

The bill that Lee, D-Oakland, co-authored with Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., would require that any money appropriated for the war in Afghanistan "shall be obligated and expended only for purposes of providing for the safe and orderly withdrawal from Afghanistan of all members of the Armed Forces and Department of Defense contractor personnel."

"It sends, really, a strong message that we've come together today to speak with one voice on this issue," Lee said on a teleconference with reporters.

Lee noted her lone vote against authorizing the use of force after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and said her concern that it was a blank check for war hasn't abated since. Had Americans known we'd still be in Afghanistan almost a decade later, she said, perhaps there would've been a more robust debate. "It's costing us $100 billion a year and countless American lives."

Lee said the bill already has about 46 co-sponsors from both sides of the aisle.

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About g!ddamn time. I have friends that have seen multiple tours in the sand pile (Iraq) only to be told after returning home to prepare for a tour in Afghanistan. We are over there protecting the poppy fields that are in turn used to make heroin which is illegal in the United States. Only in the Bizarro World of 'Bomb the Village to save The Village' does that sh!t make any sense whatsoever. We are using Predator Drones to murder anyone who happens to be in our path no matter if its a man, woman or child. I'm tired of my tax monies going to fund murder.

 

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