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>> these comments are outrageous. they are completely inaccurate and absurd. if i was a u.s. service member in kabul, i would be offended. for all of karzai's weaknesses, he's a good afghan politician and he uses the u.s. as a foil from time to time. it's infuriating. >> karzai's political career was nearly cut short in 2009 when his bid for a second term was marred by ballot stuffing and fraud. karzai won re-election but accused of corruption. the u.s. continued to support his efforts doubling war spending from 59 billion in 2009 to 118 billion in 2011. >> we once again have a voice as the pe...

After the korean war, the military budget fell by 43%, by 43%. after the vietnam war it fell by 33%, by a solid third. after the soviet union fell and the cold war ended the military budget fell by 36%. this is a pattern of military spending in america. it goes way up in times of war, but then, and this is important, it falls right back down after. in times of peace. now, over the past ten years, we have been at war and our spending has subsequently gone way up. i want to tell you these numbers because i think they're absolutely astonishing. in 2001 under president bush, the military was $287 ...

Has been so difficult to ratchet back, we should strike now and take this opportunity. >> i so badly want to cut all of the fat out of the pentagon that i'm willing to do this. it's terrible. i hope we can restore some of the things. the 2% medicaid cuts don't have any effect on patient care. so it is true there are bad cuts in there from a democratic point of view but we are never again going to get a chance to cut the pentagon back. the pentagon hasn't had any significant cuts for 30 years. a lot of the money that's going to be cut is money that was not asked for by the pentagon. it was put ...

Exit polls have said we should balance and ask the wealthiest to pay more. >> gretchen: wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. ron. that's not true. nothing is going to be balanced with talks that i heard about. >> brian: absolutely not. >> the only pending cuts is for war spending and stan tan and iraq. >> that is six billion in health care. >> we need more to save our generation and we shouldn't tax people give our generation jobs. can i please talk about how our generation is getting hammered. we'll have to pay the debt off. interest payments are 3000 per

We got up to 50 at the height of the cold war. we are going have free riders. why worry, the united states is going to take care of us. >> i think one of the things we are also missing is ordinary americans want to know what percentage of my income dollars go to military spending. nobody discusses that. if you look at that, half of our income tax dollars go toward military spending. you can't count social security. it's a trust fund. we pay into it. you have to count past wars, veterans benefits. it's part of war spending. count the interest in the debt. when you tell ordinary people that, tha...