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House Democrats Want New Afghanistan Policy

Talk Radio News Service, Thursday, July 29, 2010

By Sarah Mamula

Though a $59 supplemental bill that funds continued military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan passed earlier this week, 102 Democrats voted against it. Several of them expressed their dissatisfaction with continued U.S. military presence in Afghanistan on Thursday.

“Osama Bin Laden remains at large, the terrorist threat is alive and well, [and] Afghanistan remains in the grips of crushing poverty,” said Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif). “This is now the longest war in our nation’s history, and the longer we stay, the worse it gets.”