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:: 6.27.2003 ::
Wow. So I'm going over old Tom Tomorrow blog entries, and I see this beauty:
U.S. troops in Iraq: 10 years @ $3 billion per month?
(Note: this entry posted by Bob Harris)
This just in, courtesy alert reader Dorian:Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Marine Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave no explicit estimates for the time U.S. forces would stay in Iraq, but they did not dispute members of Congress who said the deployment could last a decade or more.
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Wolfowitz said the size of the supplemental funding request will be determined in the fall. But he did not dispute an estimate by Rep. John Spratt (news, bio, voting record), D-S.C., that the military would need an annual budget of $54 billion -- $1.5 billion a month for Afghanistan, $3 billion a month for Iraq.
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Pace told the committee that the U.S. force in Iraq is just under its peak of 151,000 combat troops and that the number will not be reduced in the foreseeable future. Mission accomplished. You have GOT to be kidding me. How is this not all over every front page?
:: Deb 6:38 PM :: permalink ::
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