Will Cost of Afghanistan War Become a 2010 Campaign Issue?

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It really would be nice if voting Americans decided we spend far too much on Afghanistan, because we do. We also spend far too much on the general projection of American power into other distant places--hundreds of them in fact. Our self-appointed role as hegemon in a recalcitrant world is costly. Now that we're the world's largest debtor nation, it's also pretty foolish.
Voters are entitled to know the total dollars spent annually on the combination of national defense, homeland security, nation building, foreign aid designed to gain the cooperation of other countries, and veteran affairs. If they did, they'd bring a little disgust with them to the voting booth. It's no wonder the total dollars aren't common knowledge.

Ron W. Smith of UT 4:14PM June 14, 2010

Obama is so terribly inexperienced that he is screwing up everything his progressive elitist brain touches upon:
-Healthcare
-Stimulus Bill
-Lack of job creation
-Poor handling of oil spill
-Fiscally irresponsible
-Auto industry bailout
-Talk of gas tax to fund oil spill
-Cap and trade
-Vat tax discussions
-Wasting jet fuel flying around the country for political reasons
=Lying everytime he opens his mouth
-Broken all of his campaign promises
-Tossing Israel under the bus
-etc., etc., etc.
Vote hom out in 2012 and his fawning minions in 2010.