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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (6191)3/15/2009 3:54:30 PM
From: Hawkmoon2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 86355
 
By the way, we're far from victorious in Afghanistan, if you haven't checked the news lately

How do you define "victorious"?

ANd yet, he decided to run our debt up by almost $7 trillion during his 8 years.

Pulling numbers out of your @ss again? You can accuse him of increasing the deficit over 8 years, but $7 Trillion is about $2 Trillion too high.

treasurydirect.gov

And of that, Iraq cost $650 Billion of that, or about 13%.

So where did the rest go? (go take a look at entitlement increases in the Federal Budget).

Hawk
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