Reply #8: That was then --January 2003, and this is now --September 2007

[whistle]

...$480 billion so far spent and gone, wasted for nothing, nada!

Bush requests #198 billion supplemental funds to be added ASAP for immediate spending at the end of August 2007

"Robber" Gates appears before the Congressional committee last Wednesday September 26, 2007 and explained that more was needed, as much as $50 billion in additional supplemental funds to protect the troops with bomb proof Humvees.....SOooooo....

My calculations stand and actually must be modified to be $728 billion by years end, spent, sunk, gone, wasted and in January Boosh and his cronies WILL BE BACK ASKING FOR MORE beyond the $280 billion already in FY 2008 Budget for the wars on top of the $500 billion regular military budget for next year. And, it is all being financed with debt!