October 3, 2008
Posted: October 3rd, 2008 04:30 PM ET
Biden said the U.S spends more during three weeks in Iraq than in seven years in Afghanistan.
Biden said the U.S spends more during three weeks in Iraq than in seven years in Afghanistan.

The Statement:
Sen. Joe Biden said at the October 2 vice presidential debate that the United States spends "more money in three weeks on combat in Iraq than we spent on the entirety of the last seven years that we have been in Afghanistan building that country ... or six-and-a-half years in Afghanistan."

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