War tab swamps Bush’s estimate

Spending projection: $150 billion by 2005
James Sterngold, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday, May 9, 2004
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With troop commitments growing, the cost of the war in Iraq could top $150 billion through the next fiscal year — as much as three times what the White House had originally estimated. And, according to congressional researchers and outside budget experts, the war and continuing occupation could total $300 billion over the next decade, making this one of the costliest military campaigns in modern times.

As a measure of the Bush administration’s priorities in the war on terrorism, it has spent about $3 in Iraq for every $1 committed to homeland security, experts say.

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Meanwhile, 770 American soldiers have died in puruit of weapons of mass destruction that did not exist. George Bush is repsonsible for their needless deaths in a reckless and unnecessary war