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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-19-06 09:32 PM
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13. The Iraq war is costing about $7.5 billion monthly, and these nitwits ..
.. are fussing about helping widows at a cost of $0.075 billion monthly? Hell, the neocon crony game has MISPLACED at least $9 billion.


The Cost of Iraq War calculator is set to reach $318.5 billion September 30, 2006, the end of fiscal year 2006 ... http://costofwar.com/numbers.html


Audit: U.S. lost track of $9 billion in Iraq funds
Pentagon, Bremer dispute inspector general's report
Monday, January 31, 2005 Posted: 0412 GMT (1212 HKT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Nearly $9 billion of money spent on Iraqi reconstruction is unaccounted for because of inefficiencies and bad management, according to a watchdog report published Sunday. An inspector general's report said the U.S.-led administration that ran Iraq until June 2004 is unable to account for the funds ... http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/30/iraq.audi... /
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  - The Iraq war is costing about $7.5 billion monthly, and these nitwits ..  struggle4progress   Aug-19-06 09:32 PM   #13 
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