War's spiraling costs bump Bush budget near $3 trillion

[struggle4progress]

aturday, February 03, 2007
BY ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Keeping troops in Iraq for another year and a half will cost nearly a quarter-trillion dollars -- about $800 for every man, woman and child in the United States -- under the budget President Bush will submit to Congress Monday.

Bush will ask for $100 billion more for military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year and seek $145 billion for 2008, a senior Pentagon official said yesterday. Those requests come on top of about $344 billion spent for Iraq since the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein ...

Bush would curb payments to health care providers such as hospitals, and would require more of the higher-income recipients to pay greater premiums ...

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[xchrom]

1. more than the wounded and dead bodies -- this is

the legacy that threatens our country.

this is an extraordinary amount of debt and deficit.

[kentuck]

2. Pay- Go?

You want it? You pay for it. Let's see it in your budget you present to Congress. End of story.