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…it. When we went to Camp David to plan our response to the al Qaeda attack, it was a map of Afghanistan that was rolled out on the table. AB…

…al-Qa’ida, such as launching missiles from an armed Predator or modestly increasing assistance to the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, that would have prevented 9-11 but these plans were not acted…

…San Francisco Chronicle article on the subject: The White House quickly backpedaled Thursday on Pentagon plans to cut the combat pay of the 157,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan

…between Pakistan and Afghanistan will soon implement high-tech surveillance tactics in the region, enabling them to monitor the area 24 hours a day, seven days a week, CNN has learned.”…

…back into recession before 2009 and we do not have any other wars, and there are no costs in Iraq or Afghanistan after this year, and we do not fix…

…does not factor in the future costs of keeping soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan: even Mr Bush’s own budget director says costs could be as much as $50 billion for…

…additional homeland security, and the war in Afghanistan) had grown at just the rate of inflation, instead of growing at the rate that we’ve actually seen. If discretionary federal spending…

…the biggest single reason is because when they made the mid-year estimate, the White House was expecting spending on Iraq and Afghanistan to be higher than it actually was. Put…

…added up all spending on disaster relief, increased spending on counter-terrorism, increased defense spending related to the invasion of Afghanistan and other counter-terror operations, victim compensation funds, and the airline…

…“9/11” or Sept. 11, 2001, in arguing for his energy policy and in response to questions about campaign fundraising, tax cuts, unemployment, the deficit, airport security, Afghanistan and the length,…