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The Iraq war costs about $12 billion a month. For perspective, the bailout is estimated at $700 billion.
She said they took the Bush administration’s 2008 request for war funding – $196-billion – and divided it by 12 to get a monthly cost. That works out to $16-billlion for both wars and about $12-billion just for the Iraq portion.
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1 FaverViewed: 1 TimeQuoted: Indeed, when it comes to Europe, most people imagine that it's the big countries such as France and Germany that set the direction for the European Union. But it turns out that it's really Ireland. By rejecting the EU's Lisbon treaty in a referendum in June, Irish voters have single-handedly changed the course of the European project. The treaty needs the support of all 27 EU member countries to come into effect; the Irish have probably killed it.
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