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USA Today
April 18, 2008
Pg. 8
Iraq should start paying the costs of its own rebuilding, fuel costs for U.S. military vehicles conducting security operations there and other expenses being borne by American taxpayers, a group of Democratic and Republican senators said. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said the Pentagon pays about $153 million a month to fuel its vehicles in Iraq, while Iraqis "heavily subsidize oil for their own citizens." Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., said he and other lawmakers will try to attach to a war-funding bill some legislation that would require Baghdad to begin shouldering these costs.
April 18, 2008
Pg. 8
Iraq should start paying the costs of its own rebuilding, fuel costs for U.S. military vehicles conducting security operations there and other expenses being borne by American taxpayers, a group of Democratic and Republican senators said. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said the Pentagon pays about $153 million a month to fuel its vehicles in Iraq, while Iraqis "heavily subsidize oil for their own citizens." Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., said he and other lawmakers will try to attach to a war-funding bill some legislation that would require Baghdad to begin shouldering these costs.