It was about $800 billion. It is not even $1 trillion. So we got about $800 billion or $900 billion for the war in Iraq, and we are talking about just in a period less than a year, $1 trillion? This is an uncharted kind of area we are getting into.
Discussing the financial implications of war funding during a floor speech.
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