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Be interesting for you. the largest amount of infrastructure money spent in the last ten years was in 2009 when democrats were in charge of everything. 823 billion dollars. this is not a question where we are not in favor of strengthening the border and making sure our border is secure and americans are safe. >> that's why it's perplexing. >> it's not perplexing. >> if you say you believe in border security and the president wants border security, surely there is a compromise. >> i don't believe in shutting down the government and saying if you don't do what i say then i'm going to keep the go...

Because their use of chemical weapons is limited. listen to what they're saying on the sunday shows. >> american people are weary, as you pointed out. they don't want boots on the ground. i don't want boots on the ground. >> we don't need to put boots on the ground. but we need to enable their neighbors, the neighbors of syria to bring some sort of peaceful resolution to this. >> we don't ever want to say, absolutely never any boots on the ground because iran is busy here. iran is very busy here. and so is hezbollah. >> gretchen: so besides being war weary amongst the american public, it's als...

Until december 15th 2011. the day the american flag was lowered in baghdad making the iraq conflict a war lasting eight years and eight months and three weeks and four days. and after all that, you got the check, america, in the amount of $823 billion and change. that's what the bill came to up through 2011. even that might be under estimating things. what we might end up paying for the iraq war and military activity in afghanistan and pakistan, might end up closer to, get this, just under $4 trillion. according to costs of war, a research project by brown university's watson institute for int...

They have made, they will be home for christmas. again, it's hard not to look at the numbers, isn't it, clayton? >> take a look at this. not to put a bow on this thing and tie it up as to how this thing has ended. these are the numbers this morning with this end of the war. number of troops in iraq they spent 3210 days there. american deaths, upwards of 4500 american deaths. wounded 32,000. the iraqi deaths, look at that 125,000 iraqis lost their lives. the cost of this war close to a trillion dollars. $823 billion. >> alisyn: impossible to know the long-term ramifications if this was helpful ...

news. mission over, but hardly mission accomplished in iraq. >> so today i can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in iraq will come home by the end of the year. >> now president bush began the war in march 2003 with a dose of what the pentagon called shock and awe. in announcing its end, president obama used the term success, not victory, and said it was time america focused less on wars overseas and more on economic problems here at home. >> i would note that the end of war in iraq reflects the larger transition. the tide of war is receding. >> there is no doubt public...