BUSH'S WAR COSTING $5.8 BILLION A MONTH!!

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Iraq War Topping $5.8 Billion A Month
United Press International
November 18, 2004

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is spending more than $5.8 billion a month on the war in Iraq, according to the military's top generals.

That is nearly a 50 percent increase above the $4 billion-a-month benchmark the Pentagon has used to estimate the cost of the war so far.

The Army alone is spending $4.7 million a month while the Air Force is spending $800 million a month transporting soldiers and flying combat missions. The Marine Corps is spending $300 million a month, the four service chiefs told the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday.

Since 2003, the Pentagon has received some $160 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in supplemental funding -- that is, in addition to its annual budget. It will be requesting another multibillion-dollar supplement early next year to cover the continuing cost of the war.



http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_cost_111804,00.html?ESRC=eb.nl

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Man, I could have a serious good time with that kinda budget!

[maxsolomon]

2. tra la la...

move along, freeing people here. any price is worth it for "democracy".

[indepat]

5. Indeed, such a small price to pay to liberate the Iraqis from oppression

[tk2kewl]

3. maybe when the war is over we could stay on that budget for a while

and spend it on housing and health care

[teryang]

4. The futility of this effort defies imagination

At the end of a long, long, long, supply chain, a poorly equiped and trained organization fighting a colonial occupier bleeds our nation white, with the cooperation of the war profiteers here at home.

Isn't this where I came in 40 years ago?