obama seemed to blame the war in iraq on the nation s economic problems. unfortunately, over the last decade, we have not done what is necessary to shore up foundations of the prosperity. we spent $1 trillion at war financed by borrowing from overseas. part of that spending was on the war in afghanistan, which president obama embraces and defends, even if he plans on withdrawal. on iraq, the congressional budget office analysis shows the cost there was less than 15% of total deficit spending in the bush years. the idea that the cost of the iraq war has some relationship to the economic catastrophe of 2008 is just flatly wrong. nevertheless, the president obama blames spending in iraq which totalled $700 billion over eight years. this in turn shortchanged investment in our own people and contributed to record deficit. president obama spenning in the first two years on the stimulus already exceeded the cost of the war over eight years by more than $150
talks about, vice president biden, any of treasury secretary geithner they the administration is on one page, we re sunsetting the top bracket. but you talk to members of congress and they would like a one-year would president obama veto? think about that. is the president of the united states going to veto the extension of the current tax rates for the next year? i think he will. that s all he s got. class warfare. that s all they have. they ll stick to it. bret: straight ahead, the panel weighs in from the result of the text to vote poll. why did joe miller win the alaska g.o.p. primary for u.s. senate? your answers next. that s going to go right in your glove. ohhh.
media matters has not yet come up with the money to run the ad. dance fever at the white house. first lady michelle obama announced several of the world s best known dance companies will perform in the east room for the obama administration first event celebrating dance. it will feature ballet, modern, contemporary, broadway and hip-hop. there have been more than 50 cultural events in the white house in the past year-and-a-half. a woman was banned from a houston area mall for failure to show i.d. after a police officer approached her for talking too loudly in the food court. natasha connor was escorted and said she couldn t return for ten years but after further review the mall manager threw out the ban. we are learning more about the ground zero mosque project, including more about
angry and grief over the four murdered innocents, one a pregnant woman, torpedo talks before they started. after a private meet, seething prime minister benjamin netanyahu vowed to stay at the negotiating table despite hamas provocation. people have no respect for human right or trample rights in the dust and butcher everything that they to oppose. the president acknowledged the killings drove israeli security to the top of the peace talks agenda. the united states is going to be unwavering in the support of israel security. hamas on the state department terrorist list was unrependent. this is a response to the crime of the palestinian people. it dominates the strip and poses threat to on the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas. mr. obama met with abbas privately and escorted him to the white house hours after
found invaded baghdad and toppled saddam hussein s regime. was the war worth it? the answer he made clear awaits and is burdened by the war s history. even if the outcome is a good one from the stand point of the united states, it will always be clouded by how it began. in an interview with fox news in baghdad, gates favorably compared his current boss who opposed the troop surge in iraq with his former boss the architect of the surge. president obama has been very aggressive, i would say just as aggressive if not perhaps somewhat more so in some places in going after terrorists and going after al-qaeda than the bush administration was. asked if the concept of regime change now stands permanently discredited, gates again invoked history. if there had been a chance to eliminate hitler in 1934, would it have been morally