*WASHINGTON – A Bill has been introduced in US Senate to end Afghanistanwar costing US $50 billion a year, media gas reported.*

*The United States Republican Senator Rand Paul on Tuesday introduced abill that could end the 17-year conflict in the war-weary Afghanistan.*

Rand Paul, a Republican senator proposes giving all Iraq and Afghanistanveterans a one-time $2,500 payout and declaring victory in Afghanistan inwhat he is billing a cost-saving move for the United States.

According to him, the payout to veterans would cost taxpayers more than $7billion, but it would also be “an immediate savings of 83 percent whencompared to the current yearly cost of nation-building.”

Paul said under his plan the bonus for veterans would be required to bepaid out within one year of the official end of the war.

“It’s important when to know to declare victory and leave a war,” he saidin a video on Twitter. “I think that time is long past, but I think we canall agree that time has come.”

“I supported going to war in Afghanistan in 2001, attacking those whoharbored the 9/11 terrorists or helped to organize the attack … and goingafter al-Qaeda,” Paul said.

“…we are many, many years past that mission” after all, Paul says, “Osamabin Laden was killed eight years ago.”

The United State has turned to nation-building at the cost of more than $50billion spent a year in Afghanistan, he added.

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