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Cost of Wars a Rising Issue as Obama Weighs Troop Levels
By HELENE COOPER
Published: June 21, 2011

WASHINGTON - President Obama will talk about troop numbers in Afghanistan when he makes a prime-time speech from the White House on Wednesday night. But behind his words will be an acute awareness of what $1.3 trillion in spending on two wars in the

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The question the president faces - we all face - is quite simple: Will we choose to rebuild America or Afghanistan? In light of our nation’s fiscal peril, we cannot do both.”

Here's a thought; maybe we shouldn't have gone in and wrecked Afghanistan in the first place.