October 26, 2004

Sticker shock
'It's your money'
'... and I want it to pay for the complete fuck-upped fiasco my trumped-up war turned into.'

The Bush misadministration is asking for another $70 billion in emergency funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, pushing total war costs close to $225 billion, Pentagon and congressional officials said yesterday.

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


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