“Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history.”

—  Mitt Romney

[2011-04-25, Mitt Romney: Obama isn't serious about America's financial health, New Hampshire Union Leader, http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Mitt+Romney:+Obama+isn't+serious+about+America's+financial+health&articleId=b7883ad5-32f6-4d62-871c-d967005bb838, 2011-04-26]
At his writing, the United States had troops fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.
2011

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