Use Afghan War Money To Pay Down Debt & Invest In Future

**Judee** · 05-05-2012

Obama: Use Afghan war money to pay down debt, invest in future
By Jamie Klatell - 05/05/12

Days after touting the drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, President Obama said that after more than a decade a war "it is time to focus on nation building here at home."

"The enormous sacrifices of our men and women in uniform are not over," Obama said in his weekly address. "But many of our troops are already coming home."

In a speech from Afghanistan on Tuesday, Obama noted that 10,000 U.S. troops returned home from Afghanistan last year and another 23,000 will leave by the end of the summer.

The president said that the U.S. must invest in the future, as it did when troops returned from World War II.

"As a new greatest generation returns from overseas, we must ask ourselves, what kind of country will they come back to?" Obama asked.

Echoing his reelection campaign message, the president offered the choices of an America where "a shrinking number ... do really well" or "where everyone gets a fair shot."

"I don’t think we should prioritize things like more tax cuts for millionaires while cutting the kinds of investments that built a strong middle class," Obama said. "That’s why I’ve called on Congress to take the money we’re no longer spending at war, use half of it to pay down our debt, and use the other half to rebuild America."

http://thehill.com/video/administrat...vest-in-future

**Dera** · 05-05-2012

This info. is apparently 5 years old and I don't think Wiki is necessarily the "last word" on anything. Maybe, if you are really interested, you can Google up more recent information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...ry_deployments

What are we doing in Australia? Why do we have thousands in Japan?

(We sure have a gazillion of our troops in Germany!) WHY did we give Afghanistan a date for removing all of our troops from there. They can simple wait us out, can't they? Why bother with us when we will gone one day?

United States military deployments

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Overseas troops (1950-2010)

The military of the United States is deployed in more than 150 countries around the world, with more than 205,118 of its 1,425,113^[1] active-duty personnel serving outside the United States and its territories. Most of these overseas personnel are deployed in combat zones in the Middle east, as part of the War on Terror. Many of the remainder are located at installations activated during the Cold War, by which the US government sought to challenge the Soviet Union in the aftermath of World War II.

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