http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/2007092...2802f3e_1.html
for Iraq and Afgan wars
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Citing unnamed Pentagon officials, the newspaper said if President George W. Bush's spending request is approved, 2008 will be the most expensive year of the Iraq war.
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In 2004, the two conflicts together cost 94 billion dollars; in 2005, they cost 108 billion; in 2006, 122 billion, the paper said.
The new spending request is likely to push the cumulative cost of the war in Iraq alone through 2008 past the 600-billion-dollar mark -- more than the Korean War and nearly as much as the Vietnam War, based on estimates by government budget officials, The Times said.
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and the dollar drops a couple more points
5 years of war and it keeps getting more costly, Iraqis have less electricity and water than under Saddam