artbrooks:

Heck if I know how accurate it is. I picked it from the same source that you noted. We'll just have to see how it shakes out. A lot depends on wheather or not Bush will have to come back to Congress in two weeks to pay for another 30 days of war. The $74.9B is for just the first 30 days. We do know this about Bush, he talks the talk but writes checks like a man with no arms.

At any rate, I don't think (based on past history) that the US government is all of a sudden going to put their money where their mouths are in treating not only the usuall medical needs of its Vets but also the strange array of sypmtoms generally called Gulf War Syndrome.

But I hope I'm wrong.

Bobert