# Did Obama add 6 trillion to the deficit?

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**Created:** [January 22, 2012, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-obama-add-6-trillion-to-the-deficit/610266 "2012-01-22T02:06:23Z")\
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> How much has Iraq and Afghanistan cost, wars he didnt start?

That raises another point: A lot of the spending for those wars was kept “off the books” by the Bush administration, but when Obama came in, he put it on the books. Which can make it look like the entire price tag for the wars, including the Bush years, is on Obama’s ledger, since it was under Obama that all those dollars first showed up in the budget.

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