Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110623:08:06:00
>> the afghanistan war is going on ten years now. if it were a kid, it would be in the fifth grade. what president obama announced tonight was not the end of that ten-year war, although he talked about it ending some day. what he talked about tonight, though, what he really outlined, what he gave a for is just the end of a surge in troops in that ten-year war. we know what it looks like when wars end. even when long wars end. this is the u.s. military spending in iraq over the last decade. up, up, up, up, up, until about actually 2009 when barack obama was sworn into office and then way, way, ...