The U.S. military budget request by the Bush Admin for Fiscal Year 2007 is $462.7 billion. It does not include other items such as money for the Afghan and Iraq wars-$50 billion for FY 2007 and an extra $70 billion for FY 2006, on top of the $50 billion approved by Congress.) |
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