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War. $712 billion. 39,000 troops on the ground there now. the total number of u.s. military killed in this war, 4,469. wounded, 30,000 plus. more actually. the countless loss of when you look at iraqi citizens who were caught up in this as well. when you look back at this and process what we have witnessed and what this nation participated in this that country, do you say it s a success? the objective was to get rid of saddam hussein and it was a success at enormous cost. we were talking about this on the air when people were saying it may be a civil war. of course it s a civil war. that s what got precipitate and here we are years later. two things came in with the cost you are talking about in terms of money and people. we ignored afghanistan. ....
We will not be adding more to the national debt. and the truthometer says what, bill? false on the truthometer on politifact for that one. oh, sound effects! yeah. he is ignoring that the debt is going to increase because of interest payments. so that s some spin and the white house was very consistent yesterday in saying that keeping the spin. yes, in keeping the spin going. but he gets a false for that one. so his argument is, the spending doesn t exceed revenues, but they re not counting the interest. exactly. they re ignoring that interest, which continues to pile up. they re pointing out, that year the deficit would be $712 billion, i believe. so that s all interest on the national debt. let me ask you something else he said. he said, almost verbatim, we also want to give rid of spending that is embedded in the tax code. now, i don t think anybody would ....
Court. we couldn t tolerate that in iraq. we got a bad record. that blackwater incident inflamed passions in iraq. again, i think at the end of the day we had 36,000 killed and wounded there. they have a national police. they have an army. they have got an operating democratic government of sorts. now it s time for us to come out and maintain contact. we will have a massive contact or presence. they have a huge embassy and there will be a couple hundred military officers in the embassy to monitor foreign military sales. time to go. as you pointed out, the countless lives lost and you cannot put a dollar on that. when you look beyond the loss of life, the number, the dollar, $712 billion spent to date on the war in iraq. let me bring in richard engle. ....
A normal relationship between sovereign nations and based on mutual interest and respect. operation iraqi freedom has been at considerable cost to the nation. over 4,400 u.s. military kill and 32,000 wounded, including over 1,000 amputees, all at a cost of american taxpayers of $712 billion. in his remarks the president made it clear he intends to end involvement in afghanistan in the not too distant future. the united states is moving forward from a position of strength. the war in iraq will come to an end by the end of this year. the transition in afghanistan is moving forward and our troops are finally coming home. then this pronouncement that military families have been ....