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On the recordJune 22, 2008
What we spend a week in Iraq would fund all this stuff for a year, or two years, or three years, I mean, the magnitude, the scale of what we're spending at the federal government and what we're short-changing that would make a real difference in the lives of women on a day-to-day basis.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Barack Obama highlights the disparity between military spending and funding for programs that benefit women.

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