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    The Wall Street Journal‏Verified account @WSJ 31 Oct 2017

    The U.S. spent nearly $700 billion fighting the Afghanistan war from 2001 to 2014http://on.wsj.com/2zlHNXY 

    4:15 AM - 31 Oct 2017
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      2. โก๋แก่ไหม‏ @kokaemai 31 Oct 2017
        Replying to @WSJ

        Forever war for American people 😈

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      3. Ted McAfee‏ @TedMcAfee1 31 Oct 2017
        Replying to @kokaemai @WSJ

        That's why Americans can't have HC it's all spent on never ending wars !!!!

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      4. Azhar Khan‏ @askhan82 31 Oct 2017
        Replying to @TedMcAfee1 @kokaemai @WSJ

        with all this many every American can get free medical, and Americans will be more safe if US stops poking it's noise in other countries

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      1. Ole Dirty Magoo‏ @OleDirtyMagoo 31 Oct 2017
        Replying to @WSJ

        Amount deposited into Swiss bank accounts - $695B

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      1. Allan Funk‏ @Radar_Funk 31 Oct 2017
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        "Clear the battlefield and let me see all the profit from our victory." Emerson, Lake and Palmer

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      1. Colleen Bohrmann‏ @ColleenBohrmann 31 Oct 2017
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        how much on educating our children? Schools must be funded so children can understand, participate & live freely in a democratic society.

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      2. David Barnes‏ @dabarnes2006 31 Oct 2017
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        And got a short term increase in human rights there.

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      3. Redz Ch‏ @RedzChowdhury 31 Oct 2017
        Replying to @dabarnes2006 @WSJ

        Could have simply won by making every Afghan family dollar millionaires

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      4. David Barnes‏ @dabarnes2006 31 Oct 2017
        Replying to @RedzChowdhury @WSJ

        Or building schools and waiting a few generations

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      1. Suhayl Abidi‏ @vucaman 1 Nov 2017
        Replying to @WSJ

        Much of it was spent on importing mineral water for the soldiers and other necesseties for the fighter of an advanced country.

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      1. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯‏ @T0KY0Jay 31 Oct 2017
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        Now who’s ready for another decade in that hell hole?! Let’s keep these wars going forever! 😑

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      1. ALM‏ @AlbertMendonca 31 Oct 2017
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        And lost....

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      1. M. Christensen‏ @cangmatt5 31 Oct 2017
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        Get out. The price has been heavy and the backwards clans and drug lords are no closer to being quelled or a democratic country

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      1. Azhar Khan‏ @askhan82 31 Oct 2017
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        if US spent even half of it in goodwill and building the Afghanistan, they wud have surrendered already. but US needs to loose war to learn

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      1. bucky barnes‏ @buckyba7890 31 Oct 2017
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        US spend 700 Billion's but result is zero because Taliban control 47% Afghanistan,pic.twitter.com/zKKRPk5wKh

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      1. Russ Foust‏ @russ8979 31 Oct 2017
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        Your point? Allow terrorists to have safe havens?

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      1. Sense‏ @__Sense__ 31 Oct 2017
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        $700 billion with zero to show for it

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      1. sola Adeyinka Mattht‏ @smat221 31 Oct 2017
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        $700billion war investments Where's the war profits?

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      1. david wilson‏ @VoltaireOK 31 Oct 2017
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        America first? Millions homeless, hungry and scared to be ill

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