{"id":4335,"date":"2007-12-27T11:28:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T17:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=4335"},"modified":"2017-05-21T13:46:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T19:46:12","slug":"war-on-terror-bill-15b-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/war-on-terror-bill-15b-a-month\/","title":{"rendered":"War on terror bill $15B a month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110807183052\/http:\/\/projects.washingtonpost.com:80\/staff\/email\/walter+pincus\/\"><font color=\"#0c4790\">Walter Pincus<\/font><\/a>, Washington Post<\/p>\n<p>The latest estimate of the growing costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the worldwide battle against terrorism &#8212; nearly $15 billion a month &#8212; came last week from one of the Senate&#8217;s leading proponents of a continued U.S. military presence in Iraq.<\/p>\n<div id=\"body_after_content_column\">&#8220;This cost of this war is approaching $15 billion a month, with the Army spending $4.2 billion of that every month,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060825151430\/http:\/\/projects.washingtonpost.com:80\/congress\/members\/s000888\/\"><font color=\"#0c4790\">Sen. Ted Stevens<\/font><\/a> (Alaska), the ranking Republican on the Appropriations defense subcommittee, said in a little-noticed floor speech Dec. 18. 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