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Jeff Duncan: “We spent $173 billion in Afghanistan since 2001.”

On the recordMarch 30, 2009
We spent $173 billion in Afghanistan since 2001.
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Jeff Duncan
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Duncan highlights the substantial financial cost of the Afghanistan war.

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