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"This weekend offered one of those damnably clarifying contrasts.\n\nIn his radio address, President Bush blasted as &amp;quot;irresponsible&amp;quot; Democrats who seek a $30 billion expansion of the SCHIP child healthcare program to cover another 4 million middle class American kids whose parents can&amp;apos;t swing the cost of health insurance. The president has vowed to veto the Democrats&amp;apos; bill, threatening the future of SCHIP as it stands &amp;#x2014; funding of the existing program will expire without a presidential signature.\n\nYet this same same weekend, Bush asked congress to pour another $195 billion dollars into the budgetary sinkhole that is Iraq (and to a much lesser extent Afghanistan). That&amp;apos;s $47 billion more than the administration previously projected for 2008 &amp;#x2014; and a 12 percent increase over 2007&amp;apos;s war budget.\n\nLeaving children and their parents struggling with medical bills in order to pay for Operation Open-Ended Occupation, Bush said, is just another way of doing his &amp;quot;duty to spend the taxpayer&amp;apos;s money wisely.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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