US has so far provided $191 billion for wars

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&ncid=718&e=3&u=/ap/20040527/ap_on_go_co/us_war_spending

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WASHINGTON - President Bush and Congress have so far provided $191 billion for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and defensive military operations at home, and about two-thirds of the money has been spent or is owed, White House figures show.


The numbers show that since the Sept. 11 attacks, lawmakers have provided $61 billion for U.S. military and reconstruction activity in Afghanistan, $119 billion for operations in Iraq, $10 billion for domestic military steps and $1 billion for other expenses such as rebuilding the damaged Pentagon (news - web sites).


Congress has enacted at least five bills providing money for the wars, covering the 2001 through 2004 government budget years. At each step, figures on the expenditures have been reported.


But the numbers provided this week by the White House Office of Management and Budget represent the most comprehensive look at war spending that the administration has made available.


"The president has been very clear ... he will do what it takes to win the war on terror, and the war in Iraq is, as he's put it, the central front in the war on terror," Joel Kaplan, deputy director of the budget office, said in an interview this week.

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