Iraq and Afghanistan Get $162B More

Odd how everyone is talking about the economy, yet Dubya manages to pour $162B more into the disasters that are Afghanistan and Iraq:

U.S. President George W. Bush has signed a war funding measure that will pay for the ongoing fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and guarantee troop support well past his presidency.

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The legislation will bring the amount Congress has provided for the Iraq war since it began in 2003 to more than $650 billion US. For war operations in Afghanistan, the measure will bring the spending total to nearly $200 billion US, congressional officials said.

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Posted By: froosh | Jul 1st


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