Dem rift on Afghanistan deepens

Do you remember the middle and late part of the last decade when the Democrats said that Afghanistan was "the good war?" The New York Times is reporting on a rift within the Democratic House caucus.

The House of Representatives agreed on Tuesday to provide $37 billion to continue financing America's two wars, but the vote showed deepening divisions and anxiety among Democrats over the course of the nearly nine-year-old conflict in Afghanistan.

The 308-to-114 vote, with strong Republican support, came after the leak of an archive of classified battlefield reports from Afghanistan that fueled new debate over the course of the war and whether President Obama's counterinsurgency strategy could work.

And over 100 Democrats voted agasint the bill.

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