Bush to request more than $100B for Iraq/Afghanistan wars

President George W. Bush will request slightly more than $100 billion to cover war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the rest of this year and an even larger amount for fiscal 2008 that begins on October 1, congressional sources said on Thursday.



The administration, which will submit the war cost proposals along with its annual budget on Monday, will provide details of its war spending plans to try to placate critics ... Full Story »

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Dale Penn
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by Dale Penn - Oct. 1, 2008

The question of the cost of the escalation of the war in Iraq is mentioned in this report, with the CBO's recent estimates that it will cost double what the administration estimates diminished as a "worst case scenerio" by the Defense Department. This lacks the depth, but it is an important story.

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