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To: Dale Baker who wrote (3493)9/10/2003 8:38:22 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (2) of 20773
 
Pay me now, and pay me later.
<font color=brown> WASHINGTON — The White House acknowledged Monday that it substantially underestimated the cost of rebuilding Iraq and that even the additional $87 billion it was seeking from a wary Congress would fall far short of what is needed for postwar reconstruction.

Administration officials said President Bush's emergency spending request — which would push the U.S. budget deficit above the half-trillion-dollar mark for the first time — still left a reconstruction funding gap of as much as $55 billion.</font>

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