On Tuesday, the House overwhelmingly passed a war funding bill, contributing an additional $33 billion to the troop surge in Afghanistan. A competing proposal was narrowly beaten out which would have taken the money, put it in a hole and burned it.
Billions of dollars designated for reconstruction in Iraq cannot be accounted for, according to a new federal report. The Department of Defense is certain it can find it by retracing its steps back over the last seven years, but if anyone has seem it they should seriously speak up. In the event that the money remains missing the U.S. plans to leave a self-addressed, stamped envelope for the Iraqis to mail the money back to the states should they find it after the US has completely withdrawn. DoD officials note that although many reconstruction efforts may fail as a result, that the plan to create thousands of piles of rubble was hugely successful.
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