New Funding for Iraq war
A $162 billion emergency spending bill passed by senate last week signed by President Bush.The bill will pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the remainder of his presidency and into spring 2009. The total cost of the war in Iraq is brought to $400 billion after the bills approval. Since the electoral victories in November 2006, the Democratic-controlled Congress has approved more than $300 billion in emergency spending bills for Iraq and Afghanistan. A new GI Bill that expands education benefits for veterans who have served since the 9/11 attacks, is also part of the bill.
Price of Iraq war $121,000 per person in US.
The US budget for Iraq in FY 2007 came to $4,988 per one Iraqi. This is three times higher than Iraq’s per-person GDP. With the 2007 Iraq war budget US citizen can be paid $121 000 each. zFacts have a price clock in their site with a detailed report of the cost. Until this moment $543,641,450,398 had been spent on Iraq war.
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Iran offers $1bn loan to Iraq
Iran is offering a $US1 billion loan to Iraq for projects to be handled by Iranian firms, an Iranian official said, two days before a landmark visit by Iran’s president to Baghdad. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visit will be the first trip by an Iranian president since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Iran and Iraq fought an eight-year war in the 1980s.
