A plan to reduce the number of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan means that the Pentagon’s war budget can be cut by $42 billion in fiscal year 2012. That’s a 26 percent decrease from fiscal 2011, when $159 billion was budgeted. “The proposed $117 billion for fiscal year 2012, which…
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