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		ikeboy on May 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The media’s reaction to Seymour Hersh’s bin Laden ... That might make you ask what we're currently spending $20 billion on that nobody knows about, though.

CHY872 on May 18, 2015 [–]

$275 billion, due to inflation.

ikeboy on May 18, 2015 | [–]

The $20 billion figure is after inflation. I've seen estimates as much as $28 billion.

In actual dollars it was $2 billion.

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