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On Friday, the Senate voted to spend another $50 billion on the war in Iraq. Here are some facts about the war thus far:
U.S. military budget for 2005: $420.7 billion
Money spent on military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11: $390 billion
Combined Chinese and Russian military budget for 2005: $134.2 billion
Combined budget of ?rogue? states (Cuba, Iran, Iraq, N. Korea, Libya, Sudan, and Syria) for 2005: $13 billion
U.S. military budget as percentage of the 2005 total budget: 51 percent