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the Defense Department's 'average monthly obligations for contracts and pay is running about $12 billion per month

Danger Room - Wired Blogs: "It's not just the troops that are surging. War costs are up for American operations in Iraq and Afghanistan* -- way up, more than a third higher than last year. In the first half of this fiscal year, the Defense Department's 'average monthly obligations for contracts and pay is running about $12 billion per month, well above the $8.7 billion in FY2006,' says a new report, obtained by DANGER ROOM, from the non-partisan Congressional Research Service. "

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