RE: Bush budget has 0 dollars for Afghanistan

From: Ramez Naam (mez@apexnano.com)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 10:26:42 MST

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    From: Dehede011@aol.com [mailto:Dehede011@aol.com]
    > Those may be good accounting numbers but I doubt we have spent
    > anywhere near that amount of money. The soldiers were
    > getting fed and drawing a check anyway.

    My numbers are taken from the Pentagon and don't include normal pay or
    readiness costs for the units. See
    http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/13/1018333432433.html

    As of February of 2002, deployment had cost around $4.4 Billion.
    Total 2002 costs were expected to be around $10.2 Billion. Add in
    pre-2002 and post-2002 costs and you get over $15B.

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