Sunday, February 22, 2009

Gates Sees Need for at Least $83 Billion More in 2009 for Wars

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=av.r.Cs8ohak&refer=canada
BLOOMBERG: The $83 billion is $13.3 billion more than Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in late December was needed. That estimate of $69.7 billion didn't include the cost of sending more troops to Afghanistan, he said then.