Price tag for war in Iraq on track to top $500 billion
By Ron Hutcheson
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON - The bitter fight over the latest Iraq spending bill has all but obscured a sobering fact: The war will soon cost more than $500 billion.
That's about ten times more than the Bush administration anticipated before the war started four years ago, and no one can predict how high the tab will go. The $124 billion spending bill that President Bush plans to veto this week includes about $78 billion for Iraq, with the rest earmarked for the war in Afghanistan, veterans' health care and other government programs.
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The combined spending requests would push the total for Iraq to $564 billion, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.
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