$15B a month - cost of wars

From Walter Pincus at the Washington Post (repost on The Age (Australia)) :

THE cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the worldwide battle against terrorism has hit almost half a billion dollars a day, a US senator says.

"This cost of this war is approaching $US15 billion ($A17 billion) a month, with the army spending $US4.2 billion of that every month," said Ted Stevens, one of the Senate's leading proponents of a continued US military presence in Iraq....

...Pentagon spokesmen would not comment on Senator Stevens' figure but said their latest estimate for monthly spending for Iraq, Afghanistan and the war on terrorism was $US11.7 billion....