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From: TigerPaw10/26/2004 12:51:11 AM
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Bush to Request Another $70 Billion
Increase In War Funding Sought
washingtonpost.com

The Bush administration intends to seek about $70 billion in emergency funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan early next year, pushing total war costs close to $225 billion since the invasion of Iraq early last year, Pentagon and congressional officials said yesterday.

White House budget office spokesman Chad Kolton emphasized that final decisions on the supplemental spending request will not be made until shortly before the request is sent to Congress. 

This loser has got to go


The new numbers underscore that the war is going to be far more costly and intense, and last longer, than the administration first suggested.

TP
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