{"id":1268,"date":"2009-10-15T12:45:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T12:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2009-10-15T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T12:45:10","slug":"does_congress_know_we_are_figh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1268","title":{"rendered":"Does Congress Know We Are Fighting A War?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Washington Times<\/a> posted an article on a study showing how some of the money appropriated for guns and ammunition for our troops is actually being spent.  There are $2.6 billion being put into pet projects.  The money was largely taken from accounts that pay for fuel, ammunition and training<\/font><\/a><\/nobr> for U.S. troops, including those fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

According to the article, some of the projects include:<\/p>\n

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“$25 million for a new World War II museum at the University of New Orleans and $20 million to launch an educational institute named after the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat.”  <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The study was conducted by Winslow Wheeler, a former Senate staffer who worked on defense funding and oversight for both Republicans and Democrats. He is now a senior fellow at the Center for Defense Information, an independent research organization. <\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

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“Mr. Wheeler said that senators took most of the cash for the projects from the “operations and maintenance” or O&M accounts. <\/em><\/p>\n

“These are the accounts that pay for troop training, repairs, spares and supplies for vehicles<\/font><\/a><\/nobr>, weapons, ships and planes, food and fuel,” Mr. Wheeler said.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There is already a privately-funded World War II museum in New Orleans.  It is a fantastic musuem–I have been there.  There is no need to put a publicly funded museum of the same time period in the same place.  There is not a problem with an educational institute named after Senator Kennedy, but why does it have to be publicly funded at the expense of our soldiers?<\/p>\n

We are fighting a war in Afghanistan.  If Congress continues to take money away from that war effort, our chances of actually winning it will decrease substantially. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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