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One more point about Stanley Kurtz’s argument that the American people don’t have what it takes to win in Iraq. TPM Reader GG points out that in addition to needing a larger army and more, his argument would have required a lot more money. And not the kind the president is accustomed to using on the credit card from Chinese Central Bank, but, the dread word, taxes.

There’s no free lunch and no free wars. Except in punditry.

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