The U.S is now spending nearly $10 billion a month in Iraq and Afghanistan

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With the expected passage this spring of the largest emergency spending bill in history, annual war expenditures in Iraq will have nearly doubled since the U.S. invasion, as the military confronts the rapidly escalating cost of repairing, rebuilding and replacing equipment chewed up by three years of combat.

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"We did not predict early on that we would have the number of electronic jammers that we've got. We did not predict we'd have as many armored vehicles that we have, nor did we have a good prediction about what our battle losses would be," Army Chief of Staff Peter J. Schoomaker recently told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

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The helicopters, tanks, personnel carriers and even small arms "have required more maintenance than we planned for," said Gary Motsek, director of support operations at the Army Materiel Command. "We're working them to death."

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Such costs were always there, Gertler said, but Bush administration officials and members of Congress put off maintenance and procurement expenditures to keep down the war's price tag.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/19/AR2006041902594.html

[FloridaPat]

1. Nearly doubled? $1 billion /wk to $2.5 /wk (up $.5 billion in the last

couple of months) seems like more than doubled to my calculator. These creeps also took $50 billion of national reserve's equipment. What a quagmire * has created.

[izzie]

2. Time to pull a Vietnam on them. No money no war

What we are going to do with this 21 building embassy is beyond me. Maybe it was for this laissez faire laws on business we put in and it will be run from that set of building.