The Iraq War Monetary Cost

House Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt, D-S.C. says that the war in Iraq has cost the United States taxpayers $379 billion to date and is expected to cost another $140 billion this year. This year's tab alone is thus nearly three times as much as former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the whole war would cost before it started.

    Want to read more? Then check out The Denver Post.

Pay attention to the 4th  from the last paragraph.

 

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Page bill Passes,Bob Ney to Serve 2 1/2 Years in Prison

   The House voted Friday (416-0) the group which supervises the page  program. The vote basically says that both parties have a equal say over the program and how it is run.

    This comes after former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla. made some inappropriate emails to some of the younger male pages and after those in charge of looking in on the accusations covered it up instead.

    That would have been the House Page Board's past Republican chairman, Illinois Republican John Shimkus.

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    Former Republican Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio got 2 1/2 years in prison on Friday for his dealings with Jack Abramoff.

The former U.S. lawmaker had pleaded guilty to illegally accepting trips, meals, drinks, tickets to concerts and sporting events and other items worth tens of thousands of dollars in return for official acts performed for lobbyist Abramoff and his clients.

    U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle said that after Ney serves his time he will be on probation for two years and must perform 100 hours of community service in each of the years.

He also is required not to drink any alcohol while on probation. The judge also fined Ney $6,000.      From Yahoo News

    I personally think that Ney got off lightly.

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