Mitch Daniels Says Iraq And Afghanistan Wars Played A 'Very, Very Small Part' In Budget Deficit
by Hayley Miller and Amanda Terkel
9/21/11
WASHINGTON -- Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R), who once served as a top budget official to President George W. Bush, is denying that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have seriously contributed to the federal budget deficit.
In an interview on WNYC on Wednesday morning, host Brian Lehrer asked Daniels whether Democrats "have a point" when they "complain that Bush caused much of the debt problem by putting the Iraq and Afghanistan wars off the books."
"No, they really don't," replied Daniels, who said it wasn't useful to look "backwards":
It's not necessary to defend any of those decisions. You just have to look at the factual math and see that they are a very, very small part of the problem we've come into. This is the deadest horse in the corral, but people keep trying to ride it....
For the full article, go to:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/21/mitch-daniels-iraq-afghanistan-deficit_n_974182.html
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