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It costs 20.2 billion dollars annually to air-condition American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq:

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I still remember Wolfowitz saying the Iraqi invasion would pay for itself. Damn ... that was more than 8 years ago that he said that.
 
That is nuts. What were Bush and the Congressional and Senate Dems thinking!??

Time to leave.

Any word on how much Obama's Libyan war is costing us?
 
wait a minute! I thought we left Iraq? Obama promised they's all be home within 18 months of him taking office. Are you suggesting that he lied?
 
No doubt we need to bring them home now and no doubt too much money was and is being spent
BUT facts matter and in this case many of the facts are missing. maybe for the sake of a good sound bite

here is the article from NPR where the retired BG explained how what all is wound into that 20.2 billion. he is the one who estimated the 20.2 bil
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'"When you consider the cost to deliver the fuel to some of the most isolated places in the world — escorting, command and control, medevac support — when you throw all that infrastructure in, we're talking over $20 billion," Steven Anderson tells weekends on All Things Considered guest host Rachel Martin. He's a retired brigadier general who served as chief logistician for Gen. David Petraeus in Iraq. He's now in the private sector, selling technologies branded as energy-efficient to the Defense Department.

Now it's important to note that wrapped up in Anderson's $20 billion figure are all kind of other expenditures – for instance, the cost of building and maintaining roads in Afghanistan, securing those roads, managing the security operations for those roads. That all costs a lot of money and is part of the overall war effort in Afghanistan."

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but bring them home NOW
 
Obama showed future presidents how to rid the world of an unwanted dictator on the cheap. No invasion/ground troops. No head injuries to pay for for the next five decades etc...
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no, it will probably just create another radical islamic state thet we will have to deal with in the future.
 
But yet, these people say they should be back in office and that whatever they did wrong was the guy that had to clean up their mess fault.
 
Saa, you lost me there. Did Dick Cheney throw his hat in the ring? What has OBama "cleaned up" exactly? He's escalated Afghanistan and we are still in Iraq. Add Libya and Yemen now.
 
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