(UK's) Iraq war chest 'will be empty by July'

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=503462

By Francis Elliott, Deputy Political Editor
21 March 2004

A war chest of £3.8bn for military operations in Iraq is set to run out within three months, official figures released last week indicate.

Defence economists estimate that keeping British troops in the country is costing taxpayers up to £125m a month.

However, figures released at the same time as the Budget show the special contingency reserve for Iraq has just £300m left to pay for operations in the coming financial year.

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not really, but count on Bush doing something as asinine. He'll print more money to give to the UK to give back to us so they can "show" their support. :puke:

Cause they know that their #1 sidekick won't be able to stick around after that.

That's quite amazing, if you think about it. Here we have the first official 'cancellation' by Spain this week. Bush and his evil minions shifted into high gear to prevent any defections from the 'Coalition of the Highly Coerced'.

In the meantime, the UK is rapidly running out of funds, so they will have to back out within three months anyway. Which the Bush's must be aware of.

So they will have other defectors, without any doubt. I wonder how the funding is holding up for the other coalition members. Maybe they are running out of money too.

This makes me really wonder about the soundness of this whole adventure. They must have known this! These guys are worse than the grown-up men who stand at the dog track on Saturdays and Sundays.

You just know they've just squandered their rent money, and now they're frantically trying to "make up for lost time". Fools.

Why not !!!!

I'm sure the people could be "scared" into approving this.

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