Reply #11: A HELL of a lot more than $120 billion according to this AP article

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Bush to Request $439.3B Defense Budget

WASHINGTON -
President Bush next week will request a $439.3 billion Defense Department budget for 2007, a nearly 5 percent increase over this year, according to senior
Pentagon officials and documents obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

The spending plan would include $84.2 billion for weapons programs, a nearly 8 percent increase, including billions of dollars for fighter jets, Navy ships, helicopters and unmanned aircraft. The total includes a substantial increase in weapons spending for the Army, which will get $16.8 billion in the 2007 budget, compared with $11 billion this year.

Senior defense officials provided the totals on condition of anonymity because the defense budget will not be publicly released until Monday. The figures did not include spending for wars in
Iraq and
Afghanistan, which the Bush administration said Thursday would total $120 billion this year.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060202/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/defense_budget