Reply #11: Today's A,merican Progress Report--THE $230 BILLION WAR: [View All]

I posted this earlier today on another thread---


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I think this was close to the amount that Kerry said it would cost by early next year--for which Bush BLASTED him for!!!!! This is part of the post election "drip, drip, drip"


BUDGET – THE $230 BILLION WAR: The Wall Street journal reports that "Pentagon officials...will ask the Bush administration for an additional $80 billion in emergency funding to help pay costs of the military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan." That request would push "the total military costs, since the Iraq war began, to well over $230 billion." The additional funding "comes on top of $25 billion that Congress approved in August to help tide the Pentagon over until it could make a larger supplemental request."........more......