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streptomycin
on May 17, 2012
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50 Years Of Government Spending, In 1 Graph
None of the graphs are from the Bush era, so your question is irrelevant.
cpeterso
on May 17, 2012
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None of the graphs are from the Bush era, but the Iraq war was still active in 2011. I was asking whether the cost of the war's operation omitted from this graph's "Defense spending".
streptomycin
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I thought, by how you phrased your question, you knew that Obama had reversed Bush's funny accounting policy. If not,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/us/politics/20budget.html
Either way, the wars are very cheap these days.
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