CITIZENS FOR LEGIT GOV REPORTS: IRAQ OCCUPATION COSTS US WHOPPING $5.54 MILLION AN HOUR

President George W. Bush last week asked Congress to approve $ 70 billion in funding for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for the U.S. fiscal year 2009, which begins on October 1, 2008.

By Kaleem Omar
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=167952

The Iraq war has already cost U.S. taxpayers more than $ 500 billion dollars, and there is still no end in sight to the U.S.’s utterly illegal occupation of Iraq.

According to congressional analysts, the eventual total cost of the Iraq war and the occupation could be as high as $ 1.5 trillion – that’s $ 1,500 billion.

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