War Costing $720 Million Each Day, Group Says
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CHICAGO, Sept. 21 -- The money spent on one day of the Iraq war could buy homes for almost 6,500 families or health care for 423,529 children, or could outfit 1.27 million homes with renewable electricity, according to the American Friends Service Committee, which displayed those statistics on la...
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The White House said on Tuesday it  will seek more than $80 billion in new funding for military  operations this year in Iraq and Afghanistan, shattering  initial cost estimates and pushing the total for both conflicts  to almost $300 billion so far.
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Cleaning up about half of the 117,000 leaking underground fuel storage tanks nationwide will cost the public about $12 billion, Congress' investigative arm said in a report released on Thursday.
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will cost U.S. taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade, no matter how quickly U.S. troops are reduced in those countries over the next few years, according to a report released this week by the Congressional Research Service (CRS).
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Representative Tim Mahoney has emphasized his outrage over the financial cost of the war in Iraq.
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The annual cost of replacing, repairing and upgrading Army equipment in Iraq and Afghanistan is expected to more than triple next year to more than &#36;17 billion, according to Army documents obtained by the Associated Press.
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As Congress started to digest a new Bush administration request of &#36;80 billion to bankroll wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its top budget analyst on Tuesday projected &#36;855 billion in deficits for the next decade even without the costs of war and President Bush's Social Security plan.
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Description: More than 70 people -- the vast majority Iraqis -- have died at the hands of insurgents in Iraq in the past three days.
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The Bush administration is hammering out its largest-ever appeal for more Iraq war funds &#151; a record $100 billion, at least, and that figure reflects cuts from wish lists originally circulating around the Pentagon.
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Â· More than 150 injured in coordinated attacks Â· One of deadliest days since US troop surge
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Global body has misused tens of millions in its peacekeeping mission over the past 3 years.
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BEIJING -- China's military spending will jump 17.8 percent this year, the spokesman for the National People's Congress said today. Jiang Enzhu told a news conference that military spending would hit $44.94 billion in 2007 -- an increase of $6.84 billion over last year. Jiang said most of the money would be spent on boosting wages and living allowances for ...
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In a largely invisible cost of the war in Iraq, nearly 800 civilians working under contract to the Pentagon have been killed and more than 3,300 hurt doing jobs normally handled by the U.S. military
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The economic cost of the Iraq war may be larger than what has actually been spent directly on the war.
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The Bush administration plans to announce Tuesday it will request about &#36;80 billion more for this year's costs of fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, congressional aides said Monday.
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The Defense Department's new civilian personnel system will cost more than the $158 million estimated by the Pentagon, a congressional report suggests.
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The U.S. Senate on Saturday authorized $70 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and nearly $463 billion for defense programs in the fiscal year that begins on Sunday.