US President Barack Obama promised on Tuesday that his proposed budget would not "hide" the price of wars waged in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"For seven years, we have been a nation at war. No longer will we hide its price," Obama said in his first address to Congress.
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The president was referring to his predecessor's controversial method of accounting for the cost of the two wars through "supplemental" funding requests outside of the main defense budget.
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