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

Reuters by Caren Bohan, Richard Cowan | Feb. 1, 2007 (News Report)

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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4.5
 by Mark Monday - Oct. 1, 2008

Sometimes the king doesn't have any clothes. It took the media a long time to get around to the question of how many people there would be in the "augmentation" and -- for the most part -- the facts didn't become public because the media pressed.

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