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Bush Administration's Military Budget Doesn't Include Money for War with Iraq.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2003

By Tom Infield, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 4--WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration's 2004 military budget, described offhandedly by one official as "about a billion dollars a day or $42 million an hour," provides more money for missile defense, ships and unmanned aircraft -- but no money for war with Iraq.

Pentagon officials said the cost of any conflict would have to be added to the $379.9 billion submitted Monday to Congress for its consideration for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. The military budget represents 16.6 percent of President Bush's overall 2004 federal budget proposal.

The Persian Gulf War, 12 years ago, cost $61 billion. After financial help from allies such as Saudi Arabia,...

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