# debt amounts and other stuff

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**Created:** [March 22, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debt-amounts-and-other-stuff/653680 "2013-03-22T17:50:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debt-amounts-and-other-stuff/653680/136 "2013-03-23T01:40:28Z")

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> [@Did Obama add 6 trillion to the deficit?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-obama-add-6-trillion-to-the-deficit/610266/7):
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> That raises another point: A lot of the spending for those wars was kept “off the books” by the Bush administration . . .

How is that possible?

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