for our nation draws strength from our differences. when our union is strong, no hill is too steep. no horizon is beyond our reach. america, it is time to focus on nation building here at home. i completely agree with the president. but keeping 68,000 troops in afghanistan for the next three years is going to cost billions of dollars. hold it right there when he talks about nation building. there s a political reality to all of this. nation building with what money? with the help of the republicans? it isn t going to be there. the financial cost of the war in afghanistan has already passed $440 billion and it s on the rise. right now we are spending $120 billion a year, twice as much as two years ago. this is not an exit strategy, this is a troop shift. the president said he wants to shift the mission from combat to support. i think we heard bush say that
recapture the common purpose that we shared at the beginning of this time of war. for our nation draws strength from our differences. when our union is strong, no hill is too steep. no horizon is beyond our reach. america, it is time to focus on nation building here at home. i completely agree with the president. but keeping 68,000 troops in afghanistan for the next three years is going to cost billions of dollars. hold it right there when he talks about nation building. there s a political reality to all of this. nation building with what money? with the help of the republicans? it isn t going to be there. the financial cost of the war in afghanistan has already passed $440 billion and it s on the rise. right now we are spending $120 billion a year, twice as much as two years ago. this is not an exit strategy,
this morning on world news now, exit strategy. the president outlines his plan to withdraw american military forces from afghanistan. the president detailed his plans about the unpopular war and told everyone why it s been a frustrating battle. it s thursday, june 23rd. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. good morning, i m daniel sieberg in for rob nelson. and i m peggy bunker. as predicted the president announced on national tv that the troops will start leaving afghanistan next month, this after a war that most americans opposed. take a look at the price tags involved here after a long and difficult battle for so many. increasingly becoming an unpopular war. of course with the death of osama bin laden, you would have to think that this process would be moved along a little faster. everyone is very war weary, it s been such a long war, a very expensive war.
when the initial goal was to go over and kill members of al qaeda? it goes back to what happened to soldiers on the ground. once the first shot goes off, the first casualty is planned. it happens in individual operations and large-scale operations. as you start getting into the complexity of warfare and how difficult the executions are, you see it coming. other elements you didn t know existed. it s why it s so important before you execute any military operation you think of worst case scenarios. if you don t, you ender into a different color. you have to have it laid out, your exit strategy, a clear set of goal that is you have to
towns. it shows studies that link city life to mental health disorders including schizophrenia and mential health anxiety. it is too soon to draw the conclusion and so you don t have to move yet. apple will bring us an iphone 5 coming in september it is a bloomburg report and that report indicates it will sport brand new software and ipad two powerful processer and a higher quality 8 megapixel cam rampt iphone 4 camera is five megapixels . apple is testing a third generation ipad with a high resolution screen than the ipad two . the new iphone said to have a whole new look. we are just minutes away from president obama s address to the nation about the exit strategy from afghanistan.