US House rejects quick drawdown from Afghanistan

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http://www.navytimes.com/news/2011/03/ap-house-rejects-quick-drawdown-from-afghanistan-031711/

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The MIC's $Ms keeping the useless war going, and going, and going.

UCA Imperial machine sucking in Americans' wealth with continuous wars and far-flung garrisoning of the planet.

yawn.

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That it was voted on and received 93 yes votes is newsworthy. Such a vote would have been basically unthinkable even a couple of years back.

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Several missiles fired from American drone aircraft (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/u/unmanned_aerial_vehicles/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) on Thursday struck a meeting of local people in northwest Pakistan who had gathered with Taliban (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/t/taliban/index.html?inline=nyt-org) mediators to settle a dispute over a chromite mine. The attack, a Pakistani intelligence official said, killed 26 of 32 people present, some of them Taliban fighters, but the majority elders and local people not attached to the militants.http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/world/asia/18pakistan.html?scp=1&sq=c.i.a.%20drones%20kill%20civilians&st=cse