Army spending $4 billion to rush more armored vehicles to Iraq
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The Army says it will spend more than $4 billion in the coming months to rush more armored vehicles to Iraq to protect troops against insurgents&#39; bombs.
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Australia will bolster its military force in Iraq's southern Muthana province with an extra 38 troops and four armored vehicles, the defense minister said Monday.
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President Bush has approved a request to deploy 4,400 additional U.S. troops to Iraq, officials said.
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President Bush will ask Congress for another $46 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and finance other national security needs, The Associated Press has learned.
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Congress yesterday approved a $447 billion defense bill with a military pay raise and new money for Iraq and Afghanistan. Underscoring the bill&#39;s
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WASHINGTON -- Iraqi insurgents are growing more effective and it will take time to get US troops the $4 billion in armor they need for protection, defense officials said yesterday. ''This is not Wal-Mart ,&quot; one general said.
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Spending may increase 25 percent next year, pushing total costs for Iraq and Afghanistan to over $200 billion.
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President Bush's defense budget request of $481.4 billion -- an 11 percent boost over last year -- pushes U.S. defense spending to levels not seen since the Reagan-era buildup of the 1980s.
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President Bush asked Congress on Saturday for $3.2 billion to pay for at least 4,000 extra combat support troops and military police forces that commanders told the president they need in Iraq.
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Global military spending rose 3.5 percent last year to $1.2 trillion as U.S. costs for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan mounted, a European research body said on Monday in an annual study.
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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.
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President Bush on Tuesday asked for more than &#36;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 nearly &#36;300 billion so far.
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Outgoing Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker said yesterday that the increase of 17,500 Army combat troops in Iraq represents only the "tip of the iceberg" and will potentially require thousands of additional support troops and trainers, as well as equipment -- further eroding the Army's readiness to respond to other world contingencies....
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President Bush requested $46 billion more today to pay for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and other security priorities, bringing the total request pending before Congress to $196.4 billion and setting the stage for another politically charged battle over the course of the war.
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The Army is planning to spend &#36;84 million to armor hundreds of older troop carriers for service in Iraq.
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President Bush will ask Congress for another $46 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and finance other national security needs, The Associated Press has learned
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Besides its $515 billion request, the Defense Department wants another $70 billion to cover some of next year's war operations.