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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tejek who wrote (357312)11/9/2007 12:25:19 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1574001
 
"A new congressional analysis shows the Iraq war is now costing taxpayers almost $2 billion a week"

boston.com

Thats from 2006. Maybe its $2.5bil a week now. It was more like a billion a week earlier in the war.

$2.5bil a week out of a $2.9 tril/year or over $55bil a week budget.

Don't get me wrong saving $2.5bil a week would be great. But it isn't where the big money is as far as federal spending, and it seems esp. foolish to stop now that progress is being made.
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