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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 26. August 2003 / Timeline August 26, 2003

25. August 2003, 27. August 2003

08/26/2003
Kosiak, Steven: Cost Growth in Defense Plans-Occupation in Iraq and War on Terror Could Add Nearly 1.1 Trillion to Projected Deficits
The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
August 26, 2003
http://www.csbaonline.org/4Publications/Archive/B.20030826.Cost_Growth_in_Def/B.20030826.Cost_Growth_in_Def.htm
In July, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a new report, The Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans: Summary Update for Fiscal Year 2004.1 The report provides a concise description of the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) plans through fiscal year (FY) 2022, and rough high- and low-end estimates of their likely costs. The plans analyzed in the report represent those included in DoD’s most recent budget proposal, submitted in February of this year.
The cost estimates provided by CBO in this report (and in past reports) raise serious questions about the long-term affordability of the Bush Administration’s defense plans. In particular, CSBA finds that based on its own analysis of data contained in the July CBO report:
-- The administration’s defense budget projections may understate the cost of the current defense plan (including military operations) by some $170 to $880 billion over the coming decade (FY 2004-13).
-- These funding (i.e., appropriations) increases would generate outlay (i.e., actual spending) increases of some $147 billion to $838 billion over the next 10 years.
-- If these additional outlays were not offset by a tax increase, or cuts in entitlements or domestic spending, they would increase the size of the federal debt. In turn, they would increase debt service-related outlays by a total of $52 billion to $248 billion.
Altogether, if the additional spending outlined in this analysis is needed to execute DoD’s long-term defense plans, the size of the federal deficit would increase by some $199 billion ($147 billion in program costs plus $52 billion in related interest costs) to $1.081 trillion ($833 billion in program costs plus $248 billion in related interest costs) above the levels projected in the administration’s most recent budget documents over the FY 2004-13 period.

08/26/2003
Forsvarsministeriet udsender pressemeddelelse om den døde danske soldat. Samtidig mener Hærens Konstabel- og Korporalforening, at Forsvarets audiørkorps, skal erstattes af en civil ordning, således, at det ikke er den militære anklagemyndighed, der efterforsker forbrydelser begået af danske soldater, skriver Berlingske Tidende.

08/26/2003

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