abcnews.go.com - 11/24/2009
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President's Agenda: Health Care, Afghanistan - ABC News
isaf.nato.int - 12/2/2009
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KABUL, Afghanistan (Dec. 2) - The statement of
General Stanley McChrystal, Commander NATO International Security Assistance Force...
and U.S. Forces Afghanistan regarding the address by The President of the United States:"The Afghanistan-Pakistan review ...
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ISAF Commander's Statement Regarding U.S. President's ...
huffingtonpost.com - 11/29/2009
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One of President Barack Obama's closest Republican allies
in the Senate urged him to put health care...
reform on the backburner and focus on Afghanistan. Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), a trusted GOP voice on foreign policy matters, told CNN's "State of ...
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Lugar: Let's Put Health Care On Hold To Deal With ...
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/25/2009
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The Pentagon, which favors a surge in US
troops to Afghanistan knows how defense bidding goes. They've...
seen enough of it from the large defense contractors to know that you bid low and reconcile at a multiple of two or three times higher than the ...
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Afghanistan Price Tag Will Easily Beat Annual Cost of ...
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Gibbs on gigantic national debt: Hey, don’t forget the savings in ObamaCare
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... of the Iraq war so far. Gibbs’s take on the “savings” in the Reid bill in the context of all this is that you have to start somewhere, but we’re now dealing with such fantastic sums of money that $130 billion — even if it was an accurate figure, which it isn’t — doesn’t even qualify as a start. It’s not even 20 percent of the interest on the national debt in a single year circa 2019. And yet this is what The One’s doing with his time while America races towards an economic cliff. gibbs-budget
Obama Flak Answering Question About National Debt: The Health Care Bill Will Reduce The Deficit
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Video is here.
Essentially White House spokesman Robert Gibbs answers a question from ABC’s Jack Tapper about the nation’s spiraling-out-of-control debt (it passed $12 trillion last week).
Gibbs’ answer? The health care bill will reduce the national deficit by $133 billion over the next ten years.
First of all, that’s a lie. The only deficit reductions in the health care bill are mirages manufactured by creating accounting. If passed, the health care bill would raise taxes and begin ...
The Note's Must-Reads for Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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The Note's Must-Reads are a round-up of today's political headlines and stories from ABC News and the top U.S. newspapers. Posted Monday through Friday right here at www.abcnews.com
Compiled by ABC News Desk Assistants KRISTEN RED-HORSE, PETER MARTINEZ, JAYCE HENDERSON, CARRIE HALPERIN and CLAUDIA MORALES ...
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