Cut the Deficit by Cutting the Wars

$1,332,676,368,880.00
That's the current US Federal Defecit according to a Congressional Budget Office report from August.
Threre's a good read over at Yahoo! News that has some very obvious answers for budget shortfalls: Cut the Deficit by Cutting the Wars.

"Considering that the United states still held a federal surplus before the Afghanistan and Iraqi Wars began, common sense dictates that ending them could decrease the deficit by billions each year and over time and bring the nation back to a surplus, even if the nation continues spending elsewhere.

The wars cost the United States over $10 billion in 2002. That cost rose to over $1.4 billion per month in 2003. Again, in 2004, the cost to sustain the wars rose to $25 billion for that year. In 2005, the war cost the United States almost $60 billion. In 2006, it cost the United States almost $120 billion. In 2007, about $170 billion was spent. From 2001 to 2007, a total of $503 billion was spent. In 2008, spending increased to almost $200 billion and in 2009, reduced to $141 billion. To date, the cost of both wars together total over $1 trillion and will continue to increase with every month that passes.

In the years 2001 until the present, many federally funded programs were cut to make room for the increasing deficit. Some of the programs cut in 2010 include education funding, Farm Aid, cancer research, Medicare and many others. How many of these programs would continue receiving their funding had the not pursued either of the wars?"