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But the debt isn't, because of Bush-era tax cuts that the teatraitors refuse to repeal.

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3849

Gee, looks like the Democrats were right: it really was all Bush. ACA is saving money and all set to save a lot more; the Bush tax cuts are blasting the budget to the Moon. And the payments for Iraq. (I won't criticize Afghanistan. My criticism of Bush's Afghanistan policy is that it was weak. He pulled Tommy Franks off bin Laden at Tora Bora, in order to plan the "worst strategic blunder in the history of the United States" in attacking Iraq. Bush 43 really does deserve "worst President ever" for that blunder. Tommy Franks deserves a medal the size of a soup plate for putting up with him and not planning a coup.)

Looks like they set out to double the deficit and then deny anyone else the right to shut them down. Why are we still paying for Iraq and for misguided Bush tax cuts? Those tax cuts haven't helped anything, unlike the recently canceled and demonstrably stimulative payroll tax holiday. And Iraq? Show me anything achieved in Iraq that in any way improves the US' strategic interests, even to the extent of demonstrably improving our tactical position anywhere. I say you cannot.

Iraq was a CF. Plain and simple. It was a CF because it was a boondoggle, as about 2/3 of all wars are. See also War Is a Racket, General Smedley Butler.