Which would require that we invest the United States equal to the goals we are setting in Iraq, whether it is in the area of health care, education, in the area of road reconstruction. In America, our highway fund will be cut by over $6 billion, yet in Iraq we are building over 3,000 miles of road which would connect New York to California.
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