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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Harry Hope" |
| Date: |
28 Sep 2006 11:39:19 AM |
| Object: |
Cost of Bush's war nearly $2 billion a week (at least). |
From The Boston Globe, 9/28/06:
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2006/09/28/cost_of_iraq_war_nearly_2b_a_week/?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News
Cost of Iraq war nearly $2b a week
By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | September 28, 2006
WASHINGTON --
A new congressional analysis shows the Iraq war is now costing
taxpayers almost $2 billion a week -- nearly twice as much as in the
first year of the conflict three years ago and 20 percent more than
last year -- as the Pentagon spends more on establishing regional
bases to support the extended deployment and scrambles to fix or
replace equipment damaged in combat.
The upsurge occurs as the total cost of military operations at home
and abroad since 2001, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,
will top half a trillion dollars, according to an internal assessment
by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service completed last week.
The spike in operating costs -- including a 20 percent increase over
last year in Afghanistan, where the mission now costs about $370
million a week -- comes even though troop levels in both countries
have remained stable.
The reports attribute the rising costs in part to a higher pace of
fighting in both countries, where insurgents and terrorists have
increased their attacks on US and coalition troops and civilians.
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I'm sure that meets with your approval. Doesn't it?...Well?...Doesn't
it? Don't be ashamed. Spit it out.
Harry
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