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Sunday, April 3, 2011

HOPELESSLY LOST AS A NATION

Yet America remains a nation at war, and it’s important for Americans to understand the cost of its longest war in history, in Afghanistan. As ThinkProgress previously reported, the FY2011 cost of the Afghan war is $113 billion, approximately 40,000 times the cost of NPR’s federal grant money that Republicans have sought to defund and enough money to fund the employment of 1.9 million firefighters for a year.

 http://truthout.org/592-americans-have-died-afghanistan-president-obama-announced-surge/1301727600

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