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On the recordMay 10, 2011
It cost 10 years, invading two or three countries, killing a lot of people, 5,000-plus American lives cost, a trillion dollars, to go after one guy? And we're supposed to now feel a lot safer?
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Ron Paul

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Ron Paul criticizes the cost and effort of the U.S. military operations related to bin Laden.

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