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Afghanistan and helped oust the taliban after the attack of 9/11. a decade later afghanistan is still desperately poor, facing increasing insurgency despite the heavy toll american forces have paid. since the invasion in 2001, the associated press reports fighting has killed close to 1700 u.s. service members. analysts estimate the united states has spent $444 billion on this war. and right now, there are 98,000 american troops still on the ground over there. hundreds of afghans marching through the streets of kabul today demanding an immediate withdrawal. the protesters chanting american out....

the end of her presidential campaign. she took rick perry to task requiring girls to get the hpv vaccine. then she did this. >> i'll tell you this, i had a mother last night come up to me here in tampa, florida, after the debate. she told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. it can have very dangerous side effects. the mother was crying when she came up to me last night. i didn't know who she was before the debate. this is the very real concern. and people have to draw their own conclusions. >> that was ba...

latest misstep the beginning of the end of her presidential campaign? by most accounts, bachmann did well in the republican debate taking rick perry to task on his order to girls to get the hpv vaccine, suggesting he was catering to pharmaceutical maker, merck. then she did this. >> i'll tell you this, i had a mother last night come up to me here in tampa, florida, after the debate. she told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. it can have very dangerous side effects. the mother was crying when she came up...

of her presidential campaign? by most accounts, bachmann did well in the republican debate taking rick perry to task on his order to girls to get the hpv vaccine, suggesting he was catering to pharmaceutical manufacturer, merck. then she did this. >> i'll tell you this, i had a mother last night come up to me here in tampa, florida, after the debate. she told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. it can have very dangerous side effects. the mother was crying when she came up to me last night. i didn't know ...

Yourselves, how long can we sustain this? >> that is senator dick durbin questioning how long we will spend resources fighting in afghanistan, a very good question. with the death of bin laden, we find ourselves in another pivot point this time involving afghanistan. since 9/11, we have spent $1.25 trillion fighting you the wars in iraq and afghanistan. soon that will be 1.5 trillion. afghanistan has cost us more than $444 billion to-date. and it is costing us an estimated $2 billion a week to operate. now, let me put that in terms of the budget battle, okay? for weeks, republicans and democra...