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2010 US Defense Budget Signed Into Law

10 hours ago ago from Jackson Township New Jersey News - Toms River, Jackson, Freehold, NJ, US and World News

By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 2009 – Defense officials are hailing passage of the fiscal 2010 budget that funds military programs and wartime operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and provides a military pay raise.   President Barack Obama signed the 2010 Department of Defense Appropriations Act into law Dec. 19 after the Senate approved it during a rare early Saturday session. The Senate ...

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13 hours ago ago from Budget Insight

Obama signs bill for defense, jobless benefits President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill that combines another round of war spending with help for the unemployed. The $626 billion defense bill contains $128 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and a 3.4 percent pay raise for the military. Defense bill comes at a price for taxpayers President Obama won most of his spending fights with Congress over the Defense ...

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World's Sole Military Superpower's 2 Million-Troop, $1 Trillion Wars

13 hours ago ago from New World Order Truth

Posted by Philip Dru on 12/22/09 Categorized as Afghanistan , War of Terror With a census of slightly over 300 million in a world of almost seven billion people, the U.S. accounts for over 40 percent of officially acknowledged worldwide government military spending with a population that is only 4 percent of that of the earth's. A 10-1 disparity. In addition to its 1,445,000 active duty service members, the Pentagon can and does ...

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4 hours ago ago from The New York Times

The Department of Defense has identified 927 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans on Tuesday: KROPOV, Serge, 21, Pfc., Marines ; Hawley, Pa.; First Marine Expeditionary Force. WARE, Albert D., 27, Sgt., Army; Chicago; 82nd Airborne Divi- sion.

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