The LA Times reports, “President Bush plans to ask lawmakers next week to approve another massive spending measure — totaling nearly $200 billion — to fund the war through next year, Pentagon officials said.”

Currently, the war in Iraq is costing the U.S. $720 million a day — an amount that could “could buy homes for 6,500 families or health care for 423,529 children.”

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