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15 hours ago ago from Sabbah Report
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19 hours ago ago from The Stopped Clock
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Now that President Obama has decided to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan the question of how to pay for this increased level of operations has arisen. In fact the question of how to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan should have been raised shortly after the attacks of 9-11 when the Bush administration decided to overthrow the regimes in both of those countries. Throughout our history whenever this nation became involved in a ...
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