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white house budget officials said last year in a statement of administration policy that troops don't need bigger pay raises, and laid out objections to the house version of the 2008 defense authorization bill.
the slightly bigger military raises are intended to reduce the gap between military and civilian pay that stands at about 3.9 percent today. under the bill,
the white house decision to reject the bill was followed by news today of a new audiotape of osama bin laden making continued terrorist threats towards western nations and u.s. forces in iraq .
"our priority must be to hunt down the men responsible for the attacks of september 11th and many of the insurgent strikes on our troops in iraq and afghanistan ," sen. landrieu said. "the unanimous call by the senate to recalibrate our sights on bin laden and the al qaeda hierarchy clearly pinpoints the need to focus our fight where it needs to be - less on policing a civil war and more on destroying those who continue to pose the greatest threat to the united states .
"today's tape demonstrates that bin laden remains on the run and in significant enough control of his network to incite violence against americans. it is a mistake for the administration to lose sight of this threat in the fog of a political fight with congress."
the landrieu amendment to the defense authorization bill states that "it should be the policy of the united states government that the foremost objective of united states counterterrorist operations is to protect united states persons and property from terrorist attacks by capturing or killing osama bin laden, ayman al-zawahiri and other leaders of al qaeda and destroying the al qaeda network."
house minority whip james clyburn (d-sc) said he was "shocked and disappointed in the president's threat," last may when the white house initially threatened to veto the bill. he noted that bush's problems with the bill are over measures that benefit "the very people who sacrifice the most in the wars in iraq, afghanistan and who serve at home and overseas."
votevets () chairman and iraq veteran jon soltz adds:
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