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To: combjelly who wrote (613771)	5/29/2011 8:38:01 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578138

Of course. It made your argument fall apart. No, it didn't. It just made it insignificant. One thing that you should notice as a bean counter is that when you sum the deficits run during the Bush administration you will notice that the debt grew faster that those numbers show. That's true of any administration, war or not, due to items that are not on the budget. That is because both wars were on the credit card. Not officially on budget at all. Obama stopped that pretense. When you put the war costs back in, suddenly the numbers look very different. Well, I agree it should be on budget, just like everything else should. But as you are fond of saying, "There go the goalposts". The reality is the cost of the war is insignificant when you consider Obama spent more than the cost of both wars, in their lifetimes, within months of taking office. Wasted it. At least the wars were fought for a purpose. The war expenditures undoubtedly have had more of a stimulus effect than the stimulus EVER will.