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January 29, 2008 at 16:48:55

Bush Signs Vets Bill, Won't Ban Permanent Bases

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President George W. Bush signed a 696-billion-dollar Pentagon spending bill immediately before his State of the Union address Monday night, which funds all Defence Department programmes not directly tied to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, expands health care for injured veterans and gives U.S. soldiers a pay raise.

The bill is a mixed bag for peace activists, since Bush added a so-called "signing statement"saying he would ignore provisions that ban permanent military bases in Iraq and forbid the use of U.S. troops to exercise United States control of Iraq's oil resources.

By clicking here here you can listen to my radio report on Bush’s signature and signing statement.

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Pacifica radio network reporter Aaron Glantz is author of the new book "How America Lost Iraq" (Tarcher/Penguin). More information at www.warcomeshome.org

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These signing statements have to stop

They amount to nothing more or less than a line item veto which the president does not have. If he signs the bill, then he signs it in it's entirety and the entire bill becomes law not just the bits he designates and he is bound by his office to enforce it.

by Watching (0 articles, 1 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 313 comments) on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 12:28:42 PM