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why do you call it the war? in iraq, 34,400 -- 4,400-plus american troops have died. tens of thousands of iraqi troops have died. that is war, that is suffering. i think it deserves the title, "war," and i think it deserves to be debated by people -- responsible people in this country. that is the nature of the system. host: robert dallek, thank you for your time. that is it for this edition of "washington journal." we will see you tomorrow morning at 7:00. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] . >> eric holde...

like to see from medicare? >> well, i think the republican leadership has pretty much acknowledged that paul ryan's plan to transform medicare into a voucher system is not going to be on the table in these talks. they acknowledge it's not going to go anywhere because democrats won't touch it. but the distinction that he made is that he is more in favor of the pete domenici, a former budget committee chairman, and alice rivlin's plan, which is a similar approach to paul ryan's, in that it transforms medicare, but it allows people to stay in a traditional program if they don't find a c...

spend our way back to prosperity the party ultimately hurt his goal. the result was the presidency of ronald reagan and a new approach to governing and the largest peacetime economic expansion in our nation's history. .. lets americans asking the question, mr. president, where are the jobs? and a president obama is asking us to raise the national debt ceiling without any commitment to national spending at the time. instead of offering a budget that is the spending binge, the administration is preferring to offer a budget that will destroy jobs by spending too much, taxing to mention ...

to offer. i pledge my own best efforts. today, i ask you for yours. thank you very much. [applause] you very much. [applause] . >> president obama signs an order. former republican senator an [unintelligible] this is 10 minutes. >> america faced challenges. one was a financial crisis brought on by reckless speculation. this helped to spark the deepest recession since the great depression for which we are recovering. the recession held to aggravate an already severe fiscal crisis. the economic crisis requires the government to make investments that added to our accumulated debt. criti...