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It's about 12 billion a month NOW, and rising fast PER MONTH.

Perhaps you should avoid a comparison to HHS. That budget is 1/4 on the ENTIRE US budget. What department would you like to cut? NIH? CDC? Maybe the FDA? Medicare? 1 n 4 Americans recieve direct help through the HHS. It's a ridiculous comparison, but it does illustrate my point, the costs of war are approaching 1/4 of the entire Federal budget.

Not that there is much we can do about the cost of war. Like the cost of HHS. What are you going to cut? No more flak jackets for the troops? No more armored personell carriers? Cut back on the number of helicopters?