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zimv20
Oct 2, 2003, 02:08 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/02/politics/02WEAP.html?hp


The Bush administration is seeking more than $600 million from Congress to continue the hunt for conclusive evidence that Saddam Hussein's government had an illegal weapons program, officials said Wednesday.

The money, part of the White House's request for $87 billion in supplemental spending on Iraq and Afghanistan, comes on top of at least $300 million that has already been spent on the weapons search, the officials said.


during the initial months of the weapons hunt, the Iraq Survey Group spent its first weeks installing air-conditioned trailers, a new dining facility, state-of-the-art software and even a sprinkler system for a new lawn

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dethl
Oct 2, 2003, 02:14 AM
Hrm, I guess I need to subscribe to the nytimes.com.

Anyway, why is the current money allocated being wasted on stuff quoted in the above post? Gonna be kinda hard to find illegal munitions if we're fertilizing our <b>new lawn</b>.