Reply #40: because the legislators felt the funding was necessary for the troops already deployed [View All]

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as well as for those on the way, and those in support positions around the region and here at home. They may not have felt that merely withholding those funds would have knocked Bush off of his occupation as the opponents claimed it would.

They may have been influenced, as well, by the inability of that particular legislation to further their goal of advancing the timelines.