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Washington (UPI, November 18) - The Pentagon is spending more than $5.8 billion a month on the war in Iraq, according to the military's top generals.

That is nearly a 50 percent increase above the $4 billion-a-month benchmark the Pentagon has used to estimate the cost of the war so far. ...

Since 2003, the Pentagon has received some $160 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in supplemental funding - that is, in addition to its annual budget. It will be requesting another multibillion-dollar supplement early next year to cover the continuing cost of the war.

This means that the entire amount of this year's annual appeal from UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to the developed world - $1.7 billion to provide basic food, medical care, and sanitation to 26 million desperately needy people in 14 countries - could be covered by nine days of what we spend on occupation and war in Iraq.

What was that crap about "moral values?"