09/27/07 CBO Estimates Iraq War Costs

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"A long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq, as President George W. Bush has alluded to, would cost around $10 billion to $25 billion a year, depending on how often troops are engaged in combat, the Congressional Budget Office said on Thursday. CBO, a nonpartisan budget analyst for Congress, based its estimates on a 55,000-troop presence in Iraq, far smaller than the approximately 169,000 U.S. soldiers now fighting a war that is in its fifth year."

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