M$M ignores provisions to prevent permanent bases in Iraq, was stripped

[flpoljunkie]

out of the $94.5 billion emergency supplemental bill for Iraq, Afghanistan and Katrina recovery and passed by the House yesterday--when the provision preventing the permanent bases in Iraq was passed by both the House and the Senate before the bill was sent to conference!

The Senate is expected to pass the bill in the next few days. Ain't our democracy grand?

The following was mentioned well into the Times article, and I found it in no other newspapers and have not heard it mention on the tube at all!

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/washington/14spend.html

The House and Senate bills included similar provisions intended to prevent the United States from establishing permanent bases in Iraq. The provisions were dropped from the final version of the legislation. Some Democrats, like Representative Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, cited the change as a reason for voting against the measure.

[ComerPerro]

1. playing politics with people's lives