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Nictuku

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5. The Iraq War was primarilhy responsible for Obama's deficit

Reply to INdemo (Original post)

Fri Jul 19, 2019, 02:10 PM

Jul 2019

This is where the Democrats message failed, because W and his congress kept passing "Emergency' funds for the Iraq war, and Obama insisted that it go on the budget. So while it did increase the budget expenses under Obama, the cause of it was the illegal war against an unarmed people.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/us/politics/20budget.html

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