This morning the New Hampshire union leader published an op-ed by Mitt Romney attacking President Obama's on deficits. In the middle of the op-ed he made a pretty amazing claim about the budget and war which Steve Benen caught.
Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history.Ummm.. Peacetime? Enter VoteVets, one of the largest organizations of veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars with a simple reply.
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1st Lieutenant Welch III, Robert F.I'm sure the families of these 36 servicemembers, all of whom were killed in Iraq or Afghanistan since the first of this month alone, were interested to see what GOP Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney had to say about their service in his New Hampshire Union Leader Op-ed.