Monday, March 10, 2003

Troop Movement Could Cost $25 Billion, Congressional Office Finds
The Congressional Budget Office estimated today that simply sending troops and equipment to the Persian Gulf to fight Iraq and returning them home would cost nearly $25 billion and that the total cost of a potential war would doubtless be much higher depending on how long hostilities lasted and how much was spent on reconstruction and other assistance.

The Bush administration has repeatedly refused to predict what a war might cost. At his news conference on Thursday night, President Bush said that the money would be requested from Congress "at the appropriate time" and that the price of doing nothing would be far greater than the price of going to war.

Last week, a senior Defense Department official suggested that a war might cost $60 billion or more.…
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/08/politics/08BUDG.html

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