The $239,000,000,000 gift

This morning while watching the new majority house leader John Boehner on Meet the Press, I heard him say:

"helping the Iraqi people learn to govern themselves is not easy. But the effort here is meaningful, worthwhile, and it may not benefit our generation, but for our kids and theirs, this may be the greatest gift that we give them."

My first thought was that will hardly make up for the huge deficit that we are forcing on them, then I thought this is a big part of the deficit we are handing them. So basically what he is saying here is our gift to you, now pay for it