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      “oil for food” program, 28–29

      Security Council, 27–28, 199

U.S. Congress, 14, 245

      Afghanistan and, 13, 113–14

      budget and, 16–17

      CIA and, 91, 94–95, 103–4

      defense spending and, 210, 214–15, 229–32, 242, 270–71, 275–76

      Iraq and, 60, 99, 159–60

      missile defense and, 211–14, 229

      overseas bases and, 145, 149–50, 188

      power of, vs. president, 9, 13–14, 16–17, 20, 39, 60, 245–50, 252–68

      torture and, 36, 44, 251

U.S. Constitution, 8–9, 13–17, 39, 55, 60, 88, 91, 99, 103, 244–45, 252–69

U.S. Family Network, 263

U.S. Forces Japan (USFJ), 180, 202

U.S. Forces Korea, 173

U.S. Government Manual, 127

U.S. House of Representatives, 14, 113

      Appropriations Committee, 114–15, 260, 264

      Armed Services Committee, 260

      Foreign Operations Subcommittee, 114–15

      Intelligence Committee, 99, 101, 115, 250, 260, 264

      Rules Committee, 263

U.S. House-Senate Conference Committee, 265

U.S. Senate, 14, 55, 100–101, 110, 266. See also Church Committee

      Appropriations Committee, 227, 264

      Armed Services Committee, 34, 44–45, 144, 158, 211, 221, 262

      Budget Committee, 265

      Intelligence Committee, 99, 250, 264

      Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee, 149–50

      Republican Policy Committee, 45

U.S. Strategic Command, 210

U.S. Supreme Court, 8, 16, 39–40, 175–76, 248–49, 252–54, 258, 266–68

unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), 218, 233

Ur excavations, 51–52

Uruguay, 108, 164, 167, 169

Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, 31

USAPatriotAct (2001), 254

Uzbekistan, 36, 112, 140, 151–53

V-2 rockets, 238

Valech, Sergio, 108

Vandenberg Air Force Base (California), 210, 222, 240

Venezuela, 20, 94, 148, 164–66

veterans, 8, 277–78

Veterans Affairs Department, 263, 276

Veterans of Foreign Wars, 144

veto, 61–62, 68, 258

Victoria, queen of England, 72, 82

Vidal, Gore, 18

Vietnam War, 1, 3, 20, 29, 40, 96–97, 126, 161, 182, 249, 254, 258, 274